P3【003】making and breaking compound words_ building students' word knowledge 01:44 P4【004】word choice_ using effective verbs in procedural writing 07:26 P5【005】four square vocabulary cards_ providing a rich context for new words 02:51 P6【006】miss nelson is missing!_ read-aloud activit...
A writer may take to long words, as young men to beards, to impress —F. L. Lucas Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders —Walter Bagehot The writer’s work is a little like handwriting. It comes out to be you no matter what you do —John Updike,New York Times...
Several recent novels write first-person female protagonists engaged in sexuality on the margins, troubling normative gender roles. Alissa Nutting’s Tampa depicts a sociopath pedophile in a slickly sick gender satire. Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs
I don’t know about you, but even though I take my writing very seriously, it is seriously my escape, and I’m of the belief that my readers will welcome a portal to another world, if only for a little while. Isn’t that why we write and read fiction after all?
but the there is only one channel. And then the dirty little child turns to Jesse and says, “I’m hungry.” Long story short, the kid gets food, the parents come home and promise to pay Jesse back if he’ll help them break open an ATM machine they had stolen. Jesse gets knocked...
I think of all the hard work we all do that stay UNDER the words and story. All the things that HELP build the authenticity of a tale, the plausibility of a tale. 7 DAYS, A DEE ROMMEL MYSTERYwill be released in a week or so. (The publisher had set March 19 at the release date...
7 Ways You Can Land Freelance Jobs on LinkedIn 1. Use keywords in your profile Start by fully filling out your profile and stuffing it with keywords about what you do. At one time, mine said “freelance writer, award-winning blogger, copywriter, and writing mentor,” but now it says “...
When writing, one needs little to no distraction. These headphones will save you the agony of a noisy neighborhood or household and allow you to focus almost as if you live in an ideal world where noise and distraction do not exist
7. Zora Neale Hurston on the Importance of Encouragement In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter to Annie Nathan Meyer, the founder of Barnard College. Meyer had met Hurston at an awards dinner and offered her a place at the college. ...
As Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” And while these oft-repeated words can seem passé (and a little too gender-specific), there is, of course, a core of truth. The reason that we’re in this situation is...