Pyromaniacs: Where's the beef?

16 July 2008

Where's the beef?

by Frank Turk

I'm working on the last part of my little series on church and government, and I can't get it under 7 pages single-spaced in WORD. And I'm not happy with it yet.

Talk amongst yourselves.

Labels: centuri0n

29 Comments:

DJP:: Do like Stephen King did with Green Mile.

Serialize!; 7:25 AM, July 16, 2008
DJP:: Er... like I hear Stephen King did.

Not that I follow such things.; 7:25 AM, July 16, 2008
Al:: Based upon Dan's recommendation I am going to read all of Stephen King's works.

al sends; 8:38 AM, July 16, 2008
Solameanie:: Frank. Just . . . post . . . segments. Part I, Part II, Part III. Yeah, it's the lazy man's way, but it works. Besides, remember that this culture has great difficulty reading anything longer than a haiku.; 9:04 AM, July 16, 2008
Tim Brown:: *Talk amongst yourselves.*

Is it ok if I talk amongst myself?; 9:54 AM, July 16, 2008
greglong:: Frank wrote:

I'm working on the last part of my little series on church and government, and I can't get it under 7 pages single-spaced in WORD. And I'm not happy with it yet.

Even with the margins at .25" and size 7 font?; 11:19 AM, July 16, 2008
DJP:: Oh, that's funny. You've been talking to my wife about how I "shorten" my sermons!; 11:20 AM, July 16, 2008
Frank Turk:: Greg --

If only we could do that to the blog.; 11:32 AM, July 16, 2008
Jugulum:: In Firefox, we could use the CTRL+scroll wheel to do it...; 11:53 AM, July 16, 2008
David Milton:: Get to it, man.; 1:32 PM, July 16, 2008
Solameanie:: Greg,

Frank should try writing it out longhand on a legal pad, preferably with a fountain or dip pen.

I think that would be a motivator to shorten the copy.; 1:37 PM, July 16, 2008
Mike Riccardi:: I guess with the open forum, I might be able to benefit from some folks' previous travels.

My Great Aunt and Uncle proved to be truly "Great" when they decided to pay for our honeymoon, which we'll be leaving for this Saturday. We're going on an Eastern Mediterranean cruise that starts and stops in Rome, and goes to Messina, Athens, Ephesus, and Crete.

I've done my research and have places that I know to check out in each of those places. But if any of you have any recommendations on where to go -- particularly places of biblical relevance -- I'd be welcome to hearing suggestions.

I know Phil's got his kid's nuptials coming up, so he's probably not checking up on us too much. So Dan and Frank, if you'd prefer folks not to answer on the thread, just say so. Then, guys, just email me at the address in my profile.

Thanks,
MIKE; 2:29 PM, July 16, 2008
Ploughman:: Why not just write "presbyterian" with a definition and lots of references from the Old and New Testaments? That should significantly cut down your number of pages and you could increase your font size :)
When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. Proverbs 10:19; 2:39 PM, July 16, 2008
yankeerev:: Frank...why don't you just "leak out" the Government stuff and then "separate" it from the church stuff...

Seems rather simple to me...; 4:06 PM, July 16, 2008
Jim Crigler:: Why use M$Word to write for a blog? I realize not everyone is enlightened enough to use vim, but Word? Word is such overkill for writing.; 4:18 PM, July 16, 2008
greglong:: DJP said:

Oh, that's funny. You've been talking to my wife about how I "shorten" my sermons!

Et tu, Brute?

It's almost the opposite of what we...I mean, what some people did in college to lengthen their papers: wide margins, courier font, size 13...; 4:36 PM, July 16, 2008
yankeerev:: Greg...

For those of us before the computer era (yes, I know.. imagine that) we simply increased the space a little bit...sort of...er, um...not really!; 4:49 PM, July 16, 2008
Carl:: Change to tiny font...expand the side, top and bottom margins and MAYBE you can shave off a couple of pages. :-); 7:50 PM, July 16, 2008
Gilbert:: This post has been removed by the author.; 10:28 PM, July 16, 2008
Gilbert:: Solameanie, the World's Most Dangerous Meanie(tm), says:

>Besides, remember that this
>culture has great difficulty
>reading anything longer than a
>haiku.

Centuri0n writes
Blogger meltdown
Now, you stop; 10:36 PM, July 16, 2008
Susan:: New and improved haiku for the short-attention-spanned generation...follows the 5-4-3 scheme instead of the 5-7-5 scheme! :); 10:52 PM, July 16, 2008
Gilbert:: Susan,

LOL! OK, I'll try again...

Glory to God
Edifying posts
Does Emergent see

Hmmm...

Hotter than the sun
Pyromaniacs
Word ablaze

Eh...I won't quit my day job... :-); 11:03 PM, July 16, 2008
Carlo:: Is WordPerfect still around?

Or you could be like Phil and not use a computer and write it on a Mac, of course, then none of us would be able to read it.; 12:25 AM, July 17, 2008
JOYce@pfg:: or could you, Frank, write it on a private practice blogger account?Then copy & paste to pyromaniacs for draft review by the team and then to click for publishing? :-); 3:20 AM, July 17, 2008
Solameanie:: Gilbert...

Oh, for the days of Leo Tolstoy. ;); 7:20 AM, July 17, 2008
bassicallymike:: I've always been impressed with the Puritan's wordiness and often marveled at their command of the language, but when solameanie made mention of the dip pen, it sunk home just how much time and effort went into their works.

Little is much sometimes Frank!
Thanks; 8:10 AM, July 17, 2008
Stefan:: Mike: Congratulations!; 8:48 AM, July 17, 2008
Gilbert:: Sola: LOL!; 9:15 AM, July 17, 2008
Frank Turk:: Wow, did this meta go all over.

Comments closed. No sense chattering on about nothing.; 9:19 AM, July 17, 2008

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