1bartone
Subscriber since: September 2011
Location: Sammamish, WA
About Me
Jack of all trades, and master of none. A dabbler, a diletante, a Renaissance man: prone to swing from dalliance to diligent. I love the pun, the lymric and exposure of truth. I am at home city and town: but prefer the forest and mountains.
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Favorite Word:

curiosity
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Least Favorite Word:

hate
As man evolves, he will hopefully become free from the dominance of uncontrolled emotion.
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Favorite Quote:

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)"
- The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, sc

Favorite Topics:

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Fiction writing:

The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012 - 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011 - 12 Comments

Grammar:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
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Such Examples as These
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How to write:

How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
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10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 15, 2013 - 9 Comments

Language:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
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"Beat-Upedness"?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 21, 2013 - 5 Comments

Language arts:

A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013 - 1 Comment

Linguistics:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013 - 11 Comments
What's Happening?
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Linguists:

A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010

Poetry:

The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013 - 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012

Self-publishing:

The March of the E-Books
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 25, 2013 - 15 Comments
Self-Publish Your Writing!
November 28, 2011 - 3 Comments

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

Usage:

Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013 - 1 Comment
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
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Visual Thesaurus:

Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012 - 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012

Vocabulary:

Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013 - 1 Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013 - 7 Comments

Words:

Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013 - 1 Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
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Writers:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
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Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013 - 3 Comments

Writing:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 14, 2013 - 2 Comments
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 13, 2013 - 4 Comments