Book Festival Puts Artists in Touch

Nearly every day for at least the past decade, cartoonist Doug Marlette has taken a late morning telephone call from an old friend on the South Carolina coast.

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Sweet new app for spell checking on Mac OS X

This is an awesome new app to help with your spell checking on Mac OS X. Developed by Drew formerly of — unless I'm mistaken — Delicious Monster, this app is seriously something that every Mac user needs to at least demo.

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Fadtastic "The Name of the Game – Unique Selling Points (USPs)"

A great post about the importance of taglines (ie slogans and logos).

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A few thoughts on journalism

Jeff croft writes a nice little article on hjournalism on his blog.

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The Age of Lowered Expectations

Are today's film comedy audiences dumbed-down, or has popular taste simply changed? Have comedy movies always disappointed, or has there really been an erosion in quality? What does it mean when critics revile a movie that becomes number one at the box office? ...

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Why write? Why blog?

One of the pleasing things in life is coming upon something that confirms something you’ve always held to. I’ve often said to people that for me reading and writing were much like meditation.

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Can This Blog Be Saved? (How to monetize prohiphop.com)

Chartreuse examines on how a blog can become a job, with tools, tricks and tips on a wordpress blog. And it's not with ads.

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10 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

Great article with a number of common mistakes. Everyone should have a look at these and make sure they aren't using bad grammar :)

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Neal Stephenson's Short Stories

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Greek Tragedy

A great writing blog from Stephanie Klein. She is one of the bloggers that have made a career from it, with book and movie deals.

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'Graduate' author to write sequel

Charles Webb has signed a deal for a sequel to his 1963 novel which introduced the love triangle of Benjamin Braddock, his sweetheart Elaine and her seductive mother, Mrs. Robinson.

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Soccer Life II announced on PS2

Going football crazy on PC is enough, but going football crazy on PS2 must be something special. Even though Sony’s upcoming PS3 has been announced, and we could clearly get a glimpse of it at E3, some developers are still writing games for PS2.

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People can't write, read or listen anymore.

Stop in on any one of the thousands of "share your video clips" web sites and search for anything which has traditionally required some degree of skill and talent; let's say for example guitar players on YouTube.com.

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Journalistic "integrity"

What does "integrity" mean as it applies to Citizen Journalists?

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Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!

Derek Powazek stresses, "Design is about communication, and it takes more than pixels to communicate."

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Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing

learning how to write

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Teacher Asks Students To Write About Who They Would Kill And How

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A Missouri high school teacher apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it.

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Tips : Writing copy for the website

What needs to happen on a website for it to be really user friendly? There are lots of sites about webdesign, but not much about web copy (text on the site).

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Fans Supply J.K. Rowling With Writing Paper

NEW YORK - Relax, Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling now has plenty of paper. The author, a resident of Edinburgh, Scotland, who writes in longhand, is busy writing the seventh and final Potter book.

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English Prof Turns Exam Grading into Drinking Game

(Los Angeles, CA)—UCLA adjunct professor Tim Boswell has decided to turn this last week of the spring semester into one prolonged drinking game in order to tolerate the abysmal writing on his freshman composition exams.

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Post 69 - My MAXIM Intern Experience

Post #69 seemed a good a place as any to recount my MAXIM intern experience. The below story was originally published in Leisuresuit.net and an abbreviated version ran in Toronto Alt-Weekly Now Magazine

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Google and the long tail of time

I noted earlier this week that the managing editor of WSJ.com noted an article I had written 10 years and two jobs ago, having tracked me down via Google. Now Chris Andersen, author of The Long Tail, notes that he now sees 39% of his traffic going to posts more than a month old..

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Writing

I've just finished a book called "History of the Pencil", by Henry Petroski. Here's an Amazon linky:

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Have You Ever Plagiarized? If So, You're in Good Company

Interesting exploration of why and how people might unintentionally plagiarize the written work of others, prompted by the recent admission of a Harvard undergraduate, Kaavya Viswanathan, that she had unconsciously copied the writing of another popular author in her recently publi

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A perfect place for fiction

Back to basics: Once upon a time writing was a fine art for which artists brought significant personal sacrifices.

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Ode article on how to tell a great story

"Most of all, great stories agree with our world view. The best stories don’t teach people anything new.

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