It’s Bloomsday: time for writers to lie about reading “Ulysses”
TweetDay 16 of Blogathon 2013 It’s unstructured. Chaotic. 783 pages in paperback. The author bragged that in its 250,000 words and 18 episodes, he had included “so many enigmas and puzzles that it will...
View ArticleJohn Hersey isn’t read much anymore. Here’s why he should be.
TweetDay 17 of Blogathon 2013 On August 6, 1945, an American plane called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. A year later The New Yorker printed John Hersey’s...
View ArticleHow LinkedIn found its mojo
TweetDay 18 of Blogathon 2013 If you’ve checked into LinkedIn lately, you know the Home Page is offering a whole lot of new sparkle. There are invitations to read what “these thought leaders are...
View ArticleFilm critic Roger Ebert, NOT on the movies
TweetDay 19 of Blogathon 2013 Film critic Roger Ebert , it seems, gave thumbs up or down to much more than movies. Take a look at Chaz’s Blog for some pithy examples. On journalism: When I entered...
View ArticleWhy writing about food is so much fun
TweetDay 20 of Blogathon 2013 I admit it. I’m a foodie (Which makes being on Weight Watchers a bit of a challenge, but that’s another story.) For foodies, food is fascination. Fun. Foodies aren’t as...
View ArticleWhat’s the secret of writing funny? See Borowitz
TweetDay 21 of Blogathon 2013 Before we begun, read this post from comedian Andy Borowitz . Go ahead, I’ll wait. For my money, not even Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart are as consistently on the mark...
View ArticleBucket List #1: A Grub Street book-writing workshop
TweetDay 22 of Blogathon 2013 Short post today. Do you have a Bucket List? I figure it’s time I got started on mine. First up is an all-day workshop called “How to plan, write and develop a book” at...
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What I learned about writing at Grub Street
Tweet Day 23 of Blogathon 2013 What do you think matters most in a novel? Is it characters? Plot? Writing style? For a seat-of-the-pants writer like me (ask my friend Peter how much I hate outlining),...
View Article10 writing exercises to start your week
TweetDay 24 of Blogathon 2013 This is the last week of June and the last week of Blogathon 2013: After today, there are seven posts to go. So here, to get those creative juices flowing, are 10 writing...
View ArticleDo writers need a muse to write?
TweetDay 25 of Blogathon 2013 Do writers need muses? How about composers? Artists? People have been arguing about the need for inspiration for millennia. For all we know, cave men waited for...
View ArticleWhat’s on your summer reading list?
TweetDay 26 of Blogathon 2013 In another 4 days, Blogathon 2013 will be over and everyone who stuck it out can start reading Beach Books – otherwise known as Trash. Potato chips for the mind. Beach...
View ArticleQuick: Hand me the Zinsser!
Tweet Day 27 of Blogathon 2013 Everybody who’s ever worked in a newsroom or a publishing house has heard somebody yell, “Hand me the Zinsser!” “The Zinsser” is a small book called “On Writing Well,”...
View Article9 things you didn’t know about YouTube
Tweet Day 28 of Blogathon 2013 Let’s call today Fun Friday and not talk about writing at all. Instead, let’s talk about that time waster called YouTube . YouTube has been around since 2005, though it...
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How to bring raw ideas to life
Tweet Image by Ron Miller Day 29 of Blogathon 2013 Whoa. Did that image up there get your attention? It’s from The Atlantic Monthly online, and it’s the way astronomical artist Ron Miller, a former...
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Blogathon 2013 wraps! The Writer’s Clinic Wordle
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View ArticleHow 2 kicks in the butt got me started on a novel
Tweet Let’s say you had $50 million to invest and you had to decide between sinking it into a Hollywood movie or a Silicon Valley startup. Which would be the better bet? The answer is, neither. Both...
View ArticleTom Hanks the WRITER likes to TYPE!
TweetEverybody knows Jay Leno collects antique cars. But other celebs have passions that are a little more, shall we say, eccentric. Johnny Depp collects dolls — including one of Lindsay Lohan wearing...
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