For one, it has bothered me for 10 years and I need to write it.

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After a year writing about this adventure though, I know I need to write.

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It's great for getting the gist of a news story that's published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I'd get human help.

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All of which reminds me that I still need to write my big Dark Souls vs.

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Even if I were to become as expert as Evelyn I would still need to employ outside firms to write proposals and guide me through the process.

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And just recently Intuit Corporation released their GoPayment application targeted at small business owners who need to accept credit card payments on the go (I intend to write about this one soon).

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And so, seated at my Jerusalem window last year, ready to at last look back and write, I was familiar with the task at hand, the need to gather information and to then look for patterns in it.

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As I write in my book, we need to be drilling everywhere we can.

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You need to find out where they hang out (i.e. industry events) or write them a concise and powerful email about who you are and why they should give you the time of day.

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Ms. PROSE: Well, yeah, and I also think - I mean this sounds like a sort of slightly nutty thing to say - but I also think that certain books just kind of pop into your hands at the moment you need to write - to read them.

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