Jyoti
Subscriber since: May 2008
About Me
Enjoy keeping visual journals (mixed media). Love reading history, romance, adventure, myths and magic. What else? I'll get back....
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Favorite Word:

reflection
For me, the play of light on water seems to dominate no matter what other meaning of the word I'm engaged in. I love words that carry a dimension of nature and writers who call upon this inner color.
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Least Favorite Word:

wasp's nest
A benign phrase, but describes the danger I feel in recording words I don't like, or worse, that are abhorrant..

Favorite Topics:

Blogs:

Quadrivial Quandary
November 17, 2009
More on "Text(ed)"
November 2, 2009

Books:

2009 National Book Awards
November 20, 2009
Author Bitten By Multiple Octopuses
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers November 13, 2009

Creativity:

How the Visual Thesaurus Inspires the Blue Man Group
November 19, 2009
Collective Intelligence
July 30, 2008

Fun:

How the Visual Thesaurus Inspires the Blue Man Group
November 19, 2009
Collecting Collective Nouns
November 13, 2009

How to write:

The Art of Phrasing
October 8, 2009
Five Simple Rules of Design Every Writer Should Know
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Naming:

You Can't Judge a Vook by Its Cover
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Edward Gelsthorpe, Father of the Cran-Morph
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Poetry:

Design, Then and Now
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The Editor Who Esteemed (and Rejected) Emily Dickinson's Poetry
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Puzzle:

The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
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The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
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Self-publishing:

Re-Imagining Publishing
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DIY Publishing
July 25, 2007

Visual Thesaurus:

How the Visual Thesaurus Inspires the Blue Man Group
November 19, 2009
The Visual Thesaurus and The New York Times Team Up for Learning
October 29, 2009

Web tools:

Your Virtual Bookshelf
November 25, 2008
Is Dr. Johnson Rolling in His Grave?
October 21, 2008

Words:

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year: "Admonish"
November 20, 2009
Proscribe with Caution
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Writers:

2009 National Book Awards
November 20, 2009
Frank McCourt: Teacher, Storyteller
July 21, 2009

Writing:

How Does English Instruction Add Up?
November 9, 2009
The Magic of Three: Teaching Students about "Triplets"
October 28, 2009