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May 31, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

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May 30, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – John Steinbeck and Dorothy Parker

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

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May 25, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

Quote of the Day: Richard Wright

  The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as

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May 24, 2016 Language / Quote / Writing

Anton Chekhov on Writing

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the

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May 23, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde

 There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do

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May 19, 2016 Editor's Toolkit / Language / Writing

The Editor’s Toolkit: OneLook Reverse Dictionary

Have you ever been stuck for a word?  The meaning is clear in your head, but you can’t grasp the

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May 19, 2016 Character Development / Quote / Writing

Thursday Quote: Elizabeth Bowen

“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.” Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) What does this mean? 

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May 18, 2016 Language / Word Wednesday / Writing

Word Wednesday: Words Spied

acroname n. A name that is the acronym of a longer name. [Deseret News] ambidisastrous adj. Equally ruinous or calamitous in two ways or

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May 17, 2016 Editor's Toolkit / Language / Writing

The Editor’s Toolkit: Hemingway App

Ernest Hemingway‘s writing style is known almost instantaneously by most readers. It is distinctive, recognizable, and influential. Critics believe his

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May 13, 2016 Character Development / Writing

“Them’s Fightin Words”: Fighting and Combat

 Fight. (v) Old English feohtan “to combat, contend with weapons, strive; attack; gain by fighting, win” (intransitive; class III strong

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May 11, 2016 Language / Science / Word Wednesday / Writing

Word Wednesday: Dord, the mysterious ghost word

The Mysterious “Dord”   In 1934, the word “Dord“ appeared in the Second Edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary on page 771, between “dorcopsis”

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May 6, 2016 Books / Writing

“The Life of a Book” by Don DeLillo

  Don DeLillo is the National Book Foundation‘s 2015 Medalist for Distinguished Contribution To American Letters. The Medal for Distinguished

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May 2, 2016 Writing

Colors Around the World

Happy May everyone. I am sitting here in Starbucks, perusing Pinterest boards. I came across this infographic that I pinned

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April 15, 2016 Writing

Story Circles

Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are

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April 10, 2016 Excerpt / Writing

Creating the (Physical and Mental) Space to Write

Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Over at Discover, editor Mike Dang asked five bloggers to describe and take photographs of their…

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