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Vol 1 Issue 8 Cyber Oasis June 1997
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Here's another issue of the Oasis! It is summer in the city and the back of the neck is getting hot and gritty. Find a cool place, relax, and let the mind trip around the net for awhile!

The creative community has unparalleled opportunity. It needs to grasp the NEW and make it something active in the mind and spirit. If it is true that the net/web is opening new areas of development shouldn't the imagination and intellect leap in and ride the wave?

If Homer could have gathered his tribe together in front of computers to tell his tales he would have done it!

Of course, there is a difference between Homer and a local advertiser selling you cigarettes using Joe Camel.

If Homer had been able to write VRML and animated his imaginative stories, so much the better.

Happy thoughts such as these come to mind since a new technology initiates a wholesale reappraisal of the past.

This period of time needs its tales as profoundly as Homer's time. It needs tales that are told in the language of the tribe, through the experiences of the tribe.
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"Gutenberg is forever the auxiliary of life; he is the permanent fellow-workman in the great work of civilization...he has marked the transition of the man-slave to the free man." Victor Hugo
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T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
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1-Manna from the Oasis
2-Heard on the Desert Winds
3-Meditations
4-Shem the Penman
5-World Culture
6-etc etc etc
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M a n n a f r o m t h e O a s i s
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, it make his life full, significant, and interesting." Aldous Huxley

---Spike is a simple but effective site-some provocative interviews-check out the Reshkoff interview.

-- Writers Write site is a must go and see--it's new--has generous links to fiction, non-fiction, and poetry sites with summations as well as actual linkage to the site.

-CrossConnect originates from the University of Pennsylvania--has quality fiction and poetry from non-students--good energy. Submit up to 15 poems/submission--send to: xconnect@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

-- I had to include this- it's an archetypal professional site and needs to be seen by anyone who wants to do it right.

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H e a r d O n T h e D e s e r t W i n d
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An excellent phrase to remember is the one artisans and athletes keep uppermost. That is, "Think Execution, not Results." If you think results bad things happen, among them frustration and sloppiness. If you think execution you will concentrate on each step you need to complete to have a successful project.

In writing, results are unpredictable. No matter how many books or articles you read on how to be successful nothing happens without execution.

Under the term 'EXECUTION' would be things such as:

• breaking a large project down into manageable parts
• making sure each word, sentence, and paragraph lead to the overall goal of the writing project
• revision, revision, revision
• editing