As promised in last week’s post on Twitter’s Fiction Festival, here’s a round up of a few standouts of the online event, which finished this past Sunday. Four things I took away from the festival, besides learning how to read …
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Literary festivals come to town and go, and for whatever reason you just couldn’t make it out to all you wanted to see this year. Fear not! Now the festival can come to you. Today is the first day of …
Top Ten Gifts for Readers and Writers: Cyber-Monday is Here!
Got a reader and/or writer on your Christmas list? Take advantage of Cyber-Monday with these unique offerings for your favorite nerd. And I mean that in the most loving way possible, of course. 10. Favorite Writer’s Coasters Even first-class swillers …
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That GIF is an Omnishambles: 2012 Words of the Year
“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of …
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Why College Students Today Can’t Write
Today’s post is brought to you by Braintrack.com, an online resource for university, college, and career searches. You can check out their blog here! College professors have been bemoaning the lack of solid writing skills in their students for decades (see this …
What Are You Doing for the Next 30 Days? NaNoWriMo, That’s What
All you fellow writers out there know… tell anyone, anyone at all… the taxi driver, a sales clerk, your grandfather, what you do for a living and 50% of the time you will get a version of the following: “A …
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Powering Up: Social Media and the New Classroom
Just a few years ago, when kids began having their own phones in large numbers, schools freaked out. At my daughter’s junior high, phones had to be hidden away in backpacks or lockers. Any teacher who observed a student with …
Through the Ira Glass: Advice on Storytelling From the Host of This American Life
Ira Glass shares advice on how to tell your story across any medium. Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life recorded a session about storytelling with Current TV back in 2009. The videos just popped up on my radar again …
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