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Share Your Story
Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008
"Everyone has a story. What's yours?" asks the website Our Echo, which is dedicated to "capturing and sharing individual 'bits and pieces' that define our local communities." Check out this rich literary community by clicking here.
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Language Lounge
Menu-Driven
Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008
This month in the Lounge we examine a common cause of Language indigestion and show the way to lasting relief.
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Backstory
John Elder Robison, author of "Look Me in the Eye"
Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2007
I'm often asked how I came to write Look Me in the Eye. This is the story. As my readers know, I've had an unusual life. It began with a crazy home environment, which I left behind at age sixteen when I joined a local band. Within a few years, I found myself on the road with the biggest tour of the decade -- KISS. Having reached the top of the world in music, I quit to work as an engineer in a toy company. But a few years later, I left that behind, too, when I quit electronics to repair cars in my driveway. And over the next decade I built that business into the largest independent Land Rover, Rolls Royce and Bentley specialty shop in New England. In the midst of that, I discovered photography, with my photos landing in galleries, museums, on record jackets and on billboards. And to top it all off, I began writing articles for car magazines.
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Blog Excerpts
Where to Publish?
Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2007
Wondering where to publish your novel, poem or short story? Duotrope Digest can help. This website lists over 2,050 markets for fiction, which you can search by clicking here.
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Behind the Dictionary
Winged Words
Wed Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2007
Linguist Michael Erard, the author of Um. .. Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean who we recently interviewed, graciously sent us this article, which he first wrote and published in the magazine Lingua Franca:
In a recent issue of the moderated e-mail list Linguist, Brown University anthropologist William O. Beeman addressed an odd phenomenon: Apparently, there is a different word for butterfly in every language, even though historical relationships and geographic contacts often suggest the words should be similar. Beeman called it "the butterfly problem."
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Blog Du Jour
Residencies for Writers
Wed Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Dog Eared
Best Books of 2007
Tue Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Candlepower
Use "Belief Builders" to Improve Marketing Copy
Mon Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2007
I wish all advertising, publicity and marketing communications were truthful and not deceptive in any way. But, alas, that just isn't the case. In fact, the bestselling author Seth Godin even titled one of his books "All Marketers Are Liars." It was an in-joke because the book was actually about using storytelling techniques in marketing, and not about lying. But the fact that he joked about it on the cover of a major book shows there is a problem.
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Word Count
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Writers
Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2007
Have you ever wondered why some people write easily and fluently, while others struggle and strain as if trying to squeeze a 185-lb body into a size six pair of jeans? In 30 years at this trade, I've noticed that effective writers tend to share seven traits. So, with apologies to Stephen Covey, here is my list.
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: December Edition!
Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2007
Ready for this month's puzzle? The theme -- especially for the holidays -- is "Peace on Earth." Have fun and good luck!
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