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Candlepower
Unpacking "Hack"
Fri May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
If you're looking for proof of the English language's remarkable flexibility, enter the word hack into the New York Times's search field. The newest results will include a mention of "hack politicians" and a reference to "the suspected hack of Sony Pictures by North Korea" in 2014.
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Word Count
Seven Ways to Stop Editing While You Write
Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2012
When I started writing back in high school, I developed the nervous practice of producing a sentence and then going back to edit it, immediately. Perhaps you do the same thing? I advise you to take a hard look at your own writing and, break the instant-editing habit as quickly as possible.
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Blog Excerpts
Wordquake!
Mon Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2011
Last week, a study was published tracking word frequencies on the blogosphere, and researchers found that certain words can have earthquake-like effects. The researchers, from the Medical University of Vienna, examined 168 political blogs in the United States and monitored spikes in word frequency. They discovered that some events can trigger influential "reverberations."
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Candlepower
How to Name Your Characters
Mon Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2019
Want to create your own memorable character names? Here are some strategies that work... and some pitfalls to sidestep.
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Wordmasters
WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Jan-Feb '08
Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008
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A Book a Week
Sat Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2007
For 20 years! Becky, the author of A Book A Week blog, has been reading a book a week for, well, over two decades. Why? Read her captivating essays about "The Beggar Maid," "Hunting Badger," "The Last of Her Kind," and on and on, and you'll begin to understand, and maybe, catch the bug, too...
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The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2011
Whenever we read fiction, a three-way bond springs to life between the writer, the reader, and the characters. Writer and reader are real human beings, the characters are imaginary, but to write a believable story, the writer must convince the readers that the characters are as human as he or she and we are, and draw us into a conversation in which facts of life may be compared and foibles confessed.
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Music Lessons for Writers
Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2009
My husband has a great voice and he loves to sing. Loves it. He's performed in an auditioned community choir called Jubilate since our triplets were age 2. And, yes, I'd appreciate a drum-roll for me — for the essential backup job of looking after three high-maintenance toddlers (now teenagers), alone, one night a week!
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Word Routes
Happy Lincoln/Darwin Day!
Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2009
Today marks the bicentennial of two of the most influential minds of the modern age: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Besides sharing a birthday, Lincoln and Darwin also shared an eloquence with the English language, despite the very different prose styles of their work. In a new book, Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik argues that this shared eloquence allowed them to impart their world-changing visions. But what about on a more basic level, that of the individual word? What lasting contributions did Lincoln and Darwin make to the English lexicon?
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Word Routes
The Year of the "Superdelegate"
Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2008
This past week saw Barack Obama clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, with the commitments of undecided "superdelegates" putting him over the top. Even though the term superdelegate has been kicking around Democratic circles since 1981, the word has achieved new prominence this year, when all eyes were on these unpledged party leaders to break the primary deadlock between Obama and Hillary Clinton. We're less than halfway through 2008, but superdelegate has already emerged as a formidable candidate for Word of the Year.
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