Author Archives: riverwriter

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

New feature: View Count

Posted on January 3, 2009 by riverwriter

Just beside the “Print the Post below” link above each post is a new piece of into: “views (ignores bots)”. This feature starts taking stats today, so it shows zero views for all the posts, even though some have been … Continue reading →

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Poets: the new novelists

Posted on December 31, 2008 by riverwriter

The Internet is rewiring our brains, according to Nicholas Carr’s July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—I agree with Carr. Carr’s thesis is that hypertext links, like the one in the previous sentence, which give us instant … Continue reading →

Posted in Essay, lotus eaters, Mild-mannered opinion, On the process of Writing, Poetry, serial, technology, thoughts below ground | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Sitting in a three-armed gown (fourth revision)

Posted on December 29, 2008 by riverwriter

The technician in the aqua lab coat summoned the balding guy with the slightly bleeding shunt in the crook of his arm, with whom I had commiserated about the insipid iodine cocktail we were both sipping: he departed clutching at … Continue reading →

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