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  1. Word Count

     My Writing Manifesto
    Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    I used to loathe writing. I found it both daunting and painful — kind of like going to the dentist and having a root canal. Every day.

    I delayed and procrastinated, putting off the dreaded task as long as humanly possible. Only the force of an inexorable deadline impelled me to push out any words. And when I finally had them written down, little time remained for editing.

  2. Backstory

     M.J. Rose, author of "The Delilah Complex"
    Fri May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    As a reader, the first garden that meant anything to me was The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was more than magical, it was deeply mysterious: locked up and hidden behind a stone wall with overgrown trees that reached for the sky.

    It was the first mystery I'd ever heard read to me and opened up a floodgate of questions. Why was the garden locked? Why wasn't the lord of the manor ever home? What was the very secret hinted at in the title?

    And so began my love of mysteries, forever intertwining suspense and gardens for me.

  3. Teachers at Work

     How Now, Brown Cow? Teaching "Proper" English
    Thu Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    "My students have been saying it correctly all the time, and I've been telling them that they were wrong," said Maria de Conceição. She had her head in her hands and, while not looking exactly disheartened, she did look somewhat perplexed. She was one of twenty Portuguese teachers of English who were showing pluck and determination by sitting through a twenty-five hour training course with me, and we had been looking at the alarming variety of ways of saying many high-frequency words in English.

  4. Teachers at Work

     Headlines That Sing: Teaching Students to Use Their Allusions
    Mon May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    One of the qualities of New York Times writing is that it not only informs clearly (almost all the time), concisely (almost all the time), and gracefully (almost all the time) — but that it delights. On almost every page, well-turned phrases, alliterations, similes and word play amuse and delight readers. My favorite Times verbal delight, though, is the headline that contains an allusion to a song.

  5. Word Count

     Three Writing Lessons from a Stroke of Insight
    Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2009

    In November, I had a stroke. My second one in six years.

    Both strokes were established in similar ways -- the puzzling outcome of having had mild abdominal surgery. I'm not trying to make you crazy here. It doesn't seem logical to me -- or to many doctors -- either. Although I have freakishly low blood pressure and exercise regularly and eat healthily, there's something about my body that doesn't like surgery. I have surgery and the main source of blood flow to the brain, my carotid artery, breaks apart (this maneuver is called a dissection) and a stroke spins off into my brain.

  6. Teachers at Work

     Wetting Feet at a High School Journalism Workshop
    Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    At a summer journalism workshop, young writers were thrown into the deep end of the pool but came up with impressive results. Bob Greenman recounts how the high school students that he taught proved up to the task of becoming dogged reporters.

  7. Candlepower

     The Case of the Generic Name
    Wed May 20 09:00:00 EDT 2020
    A case recently argued before the US Supreme Court — by telephone! — teaches us a lot about trademarks, generic terms, and domain names.

  8. Candlepower

     Branding: A Primer
    Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    With this column, we introduce the Visual Thesaurus' newest columnists, Simon Glickman and Julia Rubiner of Editorial Emergency! Read our recent interview with Simon here.

    We brand ourselves. It's what human beings do. Whether we wish to conform to some social or cultural norm (the traditional blue button-down worn by generations of IBM programmers) or stand out as rugged individualists (the prescription bottle in the earlobe hole of a kid I saw on a Los Angeles sidewalk), we are forever distinguishing ourselves.

  9. Backstory

     Laura Benedict, Author of "Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts"
    Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2009
    I've given birth to two children by scheduled Cesarean section, so I never had to spend a moment in actual labor. Is it true that many women forget the painful hours they spent in natural childbirth? I read somewhere that nature created some mechanism in us by which women do, indeed, forget so that we'll be willing to have more than one child. If it's true, I think I could compare the writing of Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts to a kind of natural childbirth. Sometimes I look at that tidy book with its dark, evocative cover and wonder just how in the heck it got here.

  10. Contest Corner

     Six Degrees of the Visual Thesaurus
    Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this month's contest, we challenge you to use the Visual Thesaurus to link two words together by clicking on the fewest number of related words. Entrants who can connect the words summer and break through the fewest number of words will receive a limited edition Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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