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June 12, 2016
OSN SHORT STORY: THE DRAWING DEATH
Today’s re-blog is from nine-year-old Hilde Kate Lysiak :-)
June 10, 2016
By Hilde Kate Lysiak
It was a bright room with lavender curtains. On a bed with blue covers, sat 13 year old, Alice, scrolling down her lap-top.
Her mother called her for dinner.
When she went downstairs, she said, “you know, mom, why can’t anybody draw a truly straight line?”
“That’s interesting, Alice. Probably because it is too hard to get it exact.”
“I have an idea,” said Alice as she ran from th...
June 11, 2016
I’m A Writer
Time for a proper post—this fine re-blog………
Shelby Larson responds to Diane Lowman’s “Am I a Writer or Imposter?”:
Shelby Larson and Friend
I myself have contemplated the merits of calling myself a writer.
It is a title that doesn’t have the same prerequisites the way that “doctor,” “engineer,” “accountant,” and “entrepreneur” do.It’s one I don’t think I’ve properly earned.
From a young age, I didn’t trip over written words the way I did spoken ones. I didn’t turn...
I Don’t Know What’s Going On…
Have you ever felt like you absolutely didn’t know what was going on?
June 10, 2016
Things Self-Published Authors Are Not Supposed to Be Able to Do…
I did a post four years ago about self-published authors getting their books into libraries…
Image Courtesy of Scheer Jozsef ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/scheerj-30109
And, a month after that post I published one about self-published authors getting their books into bookstores…
Today, we’ll re-visit that last concept.
There’s an article in The Independent (out of the state of Utah in the USA) calledEight Things Booksellers would like Self-published Authors to Know.
It’s written by...
June 8, 2016
How Nerd Camp Transformed My Teaching by Holly Schlan
How cool is this—a re-blog about “Nerd Camp” :-)
BNC (Before Nerd Camp):
I would like to think that before I attended Nerd Camp I was a pretty good teacher. I loved my students and wanted them to love learning. I differentiated instruction and taught them based on their needs. I was a pioneer in integrating technology for student reflection and engagement. I searched Pinterest for every new activity I could find for teaching my students in creative ways. Most importantly, my s...
#Gender and #Writing ~ What’s Up?
There’s a university in the USA called Yale.
Image Courtesy of Gözde Otman ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/gozdeo-43735
No matter which set of numbers you check, Yale seems to rank quite highly…
You might think you’d receive a good education (let’s say in English) at this university…
However, a group of undergraduates have called on the administration to
“…abolish a core course requirement to study canonical writers including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, saying that ‘it is unacce...
June 6, 2016
Peter Shaffer, my earliest muse – how we create the infinite
Profoundly fascinating re-blog from Roz Morris…
I’m not good at nominating favourites. I find the question too complicated to answer so absolutely. For instance, a favourite book? Favourite in what subset of a subset? It’s like comparing apples to aardvarks. But I do have a few authors I’m wholeheartedly absolute about, and one of them is Peter Shaffer, whose death was announced today. I thought I’d dig out this piece as a tribute.
First published at For Books’ Sake, October 2...
A Few More Reasons to Consider #SelfPublishing
This will make the 148th post I’ve done about “Self-Publishing”.
Image Courtesy of Dani Simmonds ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/penywise-54352
To see all the others, find the word in the Top Tags widget (down a bit in the left side-bar…)—you’ll see this postthere, too, since I’ve tagged it with “Self-Publishing” :-)
So, a few more reasons to consider this “new” (it’s been around since the ’90s…) way to publish…
You may not have noticed that traditional publishers are floundering all...
June 5, 2016
The Rainbow – Poetry
Some definitely Ponderable Poetry for today’s re-blog :-)
http://www.hdnicewallpapers.com
The Rainbow JK.Leahy
There is a rainbow
beyond the shadow
Where blended lights mellow
darkness lurks in shallow
Afraid of radiance’s glow
in obscurity, crevices open
Mind unlocks, and lets go
Beams will seek night
where bad memories hide
Upon the altar, a peace-offering
In spirit we build oneness
to end all writhing
And, we touch the rainbow
This poem is dedicated to all Papua Ne...
June 4, 2016
Evidence and verdicts: a simple way to understand show not tell
Re-blog by Roz Morris…
Pure Wisdom: “Showing is about evidence. Telling is about the verdict.”
If there’s one major issue I find writers struggle with, it’s the difference between showing and telling. In every developmental report I write for a debut author, I find numerous instances where they would improve drastically by grasping this principle. This week I found myself explaining it again, and as I’ve been watching How To Get Away With Murder, I found myself reaching for co...
