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  1. Blog Excerpts

    Allow Us to Persuade You
    "Want to convince your readers to do something or agree with your point of view? OK, that was a silly question. Of course you do.," says the site Copyblogger. But how? Read their entry on persuasive writing techniques -- and you'll be sold.
  2. Behind the Dictionary

    Word Lovin' Iconoclast
    Gelett Burgess. Rings a bell? This irrepressible early 20th century figure was at once a linguistic inventor, humorist, poet and creative powerhouse who today is... almost forgotten. Which is a shame, and which is why we celebrate the re-release after a long, long slumber of his classic Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed. We spoke to lexicographer Paul Dickson, who wrote a new foreword to the book, about this remarkable man and his work.
  3. Blog Du Jour

    Book Agents Unplugged!

    Want to know what your agent really thinks? These book agent blogs give you the inside scoop about writers, publishers and the biz!

    Miss Snark, literary agent

    Lit Agent X

    Pub Rants

    The Knight Agency

    Bookends, LLC -- A literary agency

  4. Candlepower

    How Words Become Names (Part One)
    When you're naming a business or a product, you look at words through a different lens than the novelist or historian. They think in sentences, paragraphs, chapters, or even volumes; you must think in single-word nuggets of meaning. Your job is to distill the essence -- and even the unknown future -- of your product or company in one, or sometimes two, perfectly suited words.
  5. Dog Eared

    Michelle Richmond's Reads

    We asked author Michelle Richmond, whose latest novel is The Year of Fog, about books that inspire her writing. She graciously sent us these picks: (Thanks, Michelle!)

    The Death of a Beekeeper, by Lars Gustafsson
    "This beautifully humane and intellectually playful novella about disease, death, and the noble desire to 'begin again' is in my annual rotation. I love Gustafsson's use of lists to reveal his protagonist's most intimate self."

  6. Wordmasters

    WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Nov-Dec '07
  7. Wordmasters

    WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Nov-Dec '07
  8. Wordmasters

    WordMasters: Grade 4 Blue Division Nov-Dec '07
  9. Wordmasters

    WordMasters: Grade 4 Gold Division Nov-Dec '07
  10. Wordmasters

    WordMasters: Grade 5 Blue Division Nov-Dec '07

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