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  How I Planned a Poetry Reading and an Invitation to Attend by author poet Ann Chiappetta #PoetryPlace#WordPressWednesday | Pattys World
  How I Planned a Poetry Reading and an Invitation to Attend by author poet Ann Chiappetta #PoetryPlace#WordPressWednesday
  It’s two weeks before my poetry reading, and I am nervous and excited. It’s not the first time I’ve presented my writing in public, in fact, far from it. Yet, I am just as nervy as if it was the first time. Hm, it sounds like a Foreigner song. 😊
  I’d been trying to find a way to keep in practice after New York State was quarantined and decided to schedule a zoom webinar. Why zoom? It’s accessible to text-to-speech technology. Not only is it accessible but a presentation can be recorded, and it is also reasonably priced.
  After writing my invitation I thought about how I would be able to also create an audible invitation and perhaps attract a little more cachet, as it were. I recorded the message on the sound recording app on my windows 10 laptop and saved as an MP3. Once this was done, I asked a friend for a favor. The background music was added, and the result was a great audio invitation. I then created a blog post and sent it out with the audio recording.
  Let me back up a little – I learned how to convert the MP4 WAV file to the preferred MP3 that can be uploaded onto a blog website with a media file transfer plug-in. Folks, if I listed each and every step in this article, it would become long and confusing. I will say, if a person does not wish to put aside time to learn more technology-related programs and take the time to be trained on these programs, one must find someone to do this, and this means contracting with an expert and paying for services.
  I compromised, learning the less technical tasks like converting files with the program called Switch, and paying for a zoom pro account so I have full control of meetings, webinars, and recordings. I Hope to one day be able to edit simple audio files myself but until then, I barter services with trustworthy and reliable people or ask for a favor. Failing this, I pay for the services.
  Once the invitation was written and recorded, I pushed it out over my blog, Face Book, and Twitter. I sent it to all my writing contacts, email lists, friends, family, and business contacts. I hope for at least ten attendees and more than ten listeners will send me over the moon.
  I selected the poems and essays, practiced, and timed them so I can fill the hour. My co-host and I will touch base and go over the list. Once the reading is over the recording will be posted on my website and blog and I hope to use clips from it to promote my work.
  You can learn about my books and other writing-related information by going to: www.annchiappetta.com
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  In part 1, I started talking about how I got into the writing business. Part 1 ended with me having written a couple of non-Windows-related books (including this) and contributing to several Windows-oriented books (like this). I began to wonder if it made sense for me to get an agent, so I started talking to David Rogelberg, the owner of StudioB. He offered me the tempting possibility of being able to write for O’Reilly, something I had always wanted to do. I signed on as a StudioB client and, true to his word, David got me in touch with O’Reilly about writing a book on programming for the Palm Pilot.
  Of course, I didn’t know anything about programming for the Pilot, but I wasn’t about to let a minor technicality stop me.
  What did stop me was a communications mixup between Robert Denn, my editor at O’Reilly, and another ORA editor who shall remain nameless. This other editor had signed Rhodes and McKeehan– the experts who had written a book on Newton development too– to write a Palm programming book. That left them in the position of having two PalmOS books under contract, only one of which would be written by, y’know, people who knew what they were doing.
  Robert offered to let me write a book on another topic. In fact, he even gave me my pick of topics. I wish I could say that I jumped at the chance to write about Exchange, but I didn’t. I had to be more-or-less bullied into it my my agent, who realized the long-term potential of working in the Exchange market. I didn’t know anything about Exchange either, but I was quickly determined to learn, given that I had just signed a contract to write about it. I started joining every Exchange-related mailing list in sight, printed out all the product documentation, and set up Exchange using Virtual PC on my Powerbook. (Yes, that’s right; my O’Reilly Exchange book was written on a Mac– a trend which continues to this day).
  I learned sooooo much from the folks on the swynk Exchange list. Not only were there rock stars like Andy Webb, Missy Koslosky, and Ed Crowley there; there were also a ton of Exchange developers. Just to cite one example, one of the primary perpetrators of the Exchange 5.5 MTA was on the list, as was Laurion Burchall, one of the key ESE developers. Everyone on the list was super generous with their time and knowledge, and it didn’t take me long to get up to speed. (My first “live” exposure to the community, though, was attending the 1998 MEC. I was there when Tony Redmond made his famous “I’ll pass on the clap” remark, and I heard Pierre Bijaoui explain that the average human has one breast and one testicle!)
  Coincidentally, at about the same time I got a call from O’Reilly: Windows NT Pro magazine was looking for someone to write a regular Exchange column. Was I interested? You bet I was! I started writing it in September of 1998 and it’s been in print ever since, although it’s morphed into a few different forms.
  All this time I was still holding down a real job at LJL Enterprises, writing crypto code on the Mac. Eventually my agent brought me an offer that was too good to refuse: Ford Motor Company wanted someone to write a book about their CAD system. I gave my two weeks’ notice, set up my home office, and got ready to hang out my own shingle as a full-time author. That’s when the real adventures started…
  Great, glad to hear it! I was talking with Tim about the subject after your first part; technical writing is definitely something I’m thinking about pursuing in 2010.
  
  It is with regret that I must announce Paul’s death. He died earlier this morning, 16th May 2014, after a brief illness aged 88.
  We live in South Gloucestershire. Last week, someone, a complete stranger from the little Hertfordshire town of Bushey, where I’d lived as a child, emailed to say he’d read about me on a website and knew I had lived in Bushey back in the 1930s. He and his family had lived there for some years. He was now building a collection of old photos and information about the Bushey area. His reason for getting in touch was to ask if I happened to have any old photos.
  In a closing sentence he told me the name of their road and the number of the house. I was startled to realise that he now lived only a few houses away from my own boyhood home, in the same road. He added that his house was built in about 1938. That was the time I was there myself, now 13. I sat gazing at his email like a zombie. From the number of his house I knew exactly where it was and that it was being built at the time my father’s bicycle crash when his brakes failed as he shot down our road, going faster and faster, unable to stop. Across the road ahead of him was a five-barred gate, marking the end of the cul-de-sac road. He had spotted a heap of builders’ sand just ahead of the barrier, on the left, and headed for that. He hit it, flew over his handlebars and somersaulted, head first, into the sand. It had probably saved him from serious injury, possibly death.
  I remember hearing someone banging the front-door knocker. I jumped up and opened it. There stood Dad. He was covered in wet sand and holding on to his twisted bike.