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November 3, 2015
If You Want to Be Productive, You Have to Rest
Today’s re-blog proves that Science has finally caught up with my mother…
She used to always say:
“Whether you’re a Reader, Writer, or Publisher, you absolutely can’t function with ‘peak performance’ unless you get your rest.”
Obviously, my mother never really said anything like that :-)
Originally posted on Longreads Blog:
In a recent thought-provoking review of research on the default mode network, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the University of Southern California and her...
November 2, 2015
All About #Authors, the #WritersLife, and #WritingTips
Woah—I’m all Twitterfied in that post title!
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Actually those three hashtagscould apply to this blog (especially if you scroll and explore the left side-bar…)—looking into the Top Tags will reveal my dedication to sharing information that writers can use (plenty of info for readers and publishers, too).
And, as I usually do, I must warn you to take Any writing advice with tender caution…
However, today I’m go...
All About #Authors, the #WritersLife and #WritingTips
Woah—I’m all Twitterfied in that post title!
Image Courtesy of miguel ugalde ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/ugaldew-30895
Actually those three hashtagscould apply to this blog (especially if you scroll and explore the left side-bar…)—looking into the Top Tags will reveal my dedication to sharing information that writers can use (plenty of info for readers and publishers, too).
And, as I usually do, I must warn you to take Any writing advice with tender caution…
However, today I’m go...
November 1, 2015
#NaNoWriMo Tips from a NonNaNoWriMo Guy . . .
I am so NonNaNoWriMo I can’t even take the time to devise my own brand of tips for the Event/Effort/Enterprise (heck, I didn’t even think about putting anything on this blog until after the starting gun went off… :-)
So, here’s bookishpixie with her NaNoWriMo Tips:
{ And, some of her tips are good for NonNaNoWriMoers, too… }
Also, if you are doing NaNoWriMo, why are you reading this blog… :-)
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Locks and Lore: Siri Hustvedt on the Cultural and Literary Significance of Hair
Hair, forever misunderstood………
Originally posted on Longreads Blog:
I began the fifth grade with long hair, but at some point in the middle of the year I chopped it into what was then called a pixie cut. When I returned to school newly shorn, I was informed that the boy I liked, a boy who had supposedly liked me back, had withdrawn his affection. It had been swept away and discarded at the hairdresser’s along with my silky locks. I recall thinking that my former admirer was...
October 31, 2015
The Nature of a Narrative Line
What is a “Narrative Line”?
Today’s re-blog is for Readers and Writers alike…
It also includes an invitation to buy a fascinating book :-)
Originally posted on Longreads Blog:
September 17
Annie Dillard talks about how the narrative line has been devalued by modern physics. The narrative line to me is like a Mexican mural: flattened in perspective so all is present; cramped by detail, erotic, various, the flat depth held up in the imagination, its transience, and impermane...
October 30, 2015
A Literary Magazine Recommendation
I scan and browse and burrow-into and search and taste and save lots of sites that might end up being mentioned in this blog…
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I almost didn’t consider telling you about a literary magazine I just discovered.
It’s created in Australia—my Best Friend lives in Australia—I almost sent her the link directly—I’m wondering if she already knows about Writer’s Edit…
It began it’s life in 2013 through the founding effor...
October 29, 2015
Licence or license? Practice or practise?
As today’s re-blog demonstrates, some spelling rules are “magnificently daft” :-)
Originally posted on Stroppy Editor:
If you’re American, it’s simple: use license and practice and you won’t go wrong.
If you’re British, things are more complicated. Use licence and practice as nouns and license and practise as verbs. The adjectives formed from the verbs also have the s spelling.
Hence this passage from the UK’s General Medical Council:
If you want to continue to hold a licen...
October 28, 2015
Here’s Your Homework . . .
I’m in a particularly experimental mood today.
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I was just looking over the articles that I’ll be using for this post when (I’ll blame it on my Muse) an idea hit me.
O.K.…
It seems a journalist,Kathryn Schulz, wrote an article in The New Yorker that criticizes another journalist,Henry David Thoreau.
The article is called Pond Scum ~Henry David Thoreau’s moral myopia.
I began to read that article and decided I...
October 27, 2015
Writing in memoir ~ quotes, D.G. Kay
Just learned how to “Press This” in this blog when another blog doesn’t have a Re-blog button…
Enjoy what’s below :-)
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William Zinsser“To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”
The Quotes are Continued at: Writing in memoir, writing tips, references, quotes,Scott Berkun, reblog, D.G. Kay
