Embarazoso embarazo de Bristol Palin, que no se desembaraza [+] (1)
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Leo con desconcierto la sorpresa ante la maravilla increíble, o quizá mejor, la acusación implícita que el diario El País hace al dar noticia del embarazo de Bristol Palin, de 17 años, hija de Sarah Palin, candidata a la Vicepresidencia Usa. Dice así el titular, más acusador y más farisaico-escandalizado que sorprendido: La hija de 17 años de Sarah Palin, embarazada. Yo creía que el periódico estaba -al menos- al...
6 Writing Rules To Master (6)
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Drinking and Writing Brewery (1)
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I've found a new support group: The Drinking and Writing Brewery."Through a radio show, productions on stage and in bars, a website, and on the page, The Drinking & Writing Brewery exists to preserve the spirit and devotion of the hard drinking writer and to uphold the rituals of creativity through their passion for the written word. We strive to attract others who share these principles."The
Fleshbot Fashion Police #2: Stocking Dos And Don’ts (1)
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For my second weekly Fleshbot feature about fashion, I wrote up some dos and don’ts about stockings, including snark and helpful suggestions about garter belts, body stockings, white stockings, stockings and open-toed shoes, knee highs, and the trick of up-sizing.
My Top 5 Favourite Directors (1)
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“Michael Bay’s Magic Hour” by Pasquale. I’m passionate about film. There are few things I love more than watching a great film. Even if a movie has a crap storyline or the acting is atrocious or the music is mainly comprised of midi horns, I’ll still learn something from it. Maybe it’s what not to do or maybe it’s just stunning visually. I get a lot of my photo lighting and composition ideas from film. ...
Tricks for Getting to the Core of Your Story (Part 2) (1)
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Part Deux in our 3-part series on finding the essence of your story. Read part one here. 2. Little Cards, Fat Markers Get yourself a stack of index cards and a few Sharpie markers. Chances are, you already have an idea of some of the slides you want to have in your presentation, so use the index cards to start building it. (Don’t worry that you don’t know the essence of the story yet; that ...
Four Free Creative Writing Applications for Mac (4)
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The Mac is said to be the machine of creative people; starting from graphic designers to musicians and sound engineers. There are lots of heavy applications available to cater for their needs. But what about writers? What options do they have? Mac’s word processors are always identical to the low profile TextEdit or the heavy duty MS Word or Open Office. There’s also previously mentioned Lyx, but neither of these are built specifically for writers. ...
The Destruction (1)
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I was little at the time, maybe four or five. I can remember vague images from before The Destruction, the smell of mom's kitchen, dad working on the car. I never asked my parents about the details of our old life before I left, so I only know what I can remember. I think we were known as the Tralan tribe, I remember my mom saying that. I remember huge cities with enormous buildings. There ...
Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students (1)
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In the last several months, I’ve reviewed a bunch of powerful free training and tools that can help students succeed in this new school year. Here’s a list of reviews you might want to check out. General Study Support ZipRoad: “The Easy Street to Local Learning” How to Study Graphic Organizers: Tools for Instructors & Students [& Parents! Free Educational Quizzes, Games & Puzzles Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier SAT Skills Insight: Get Ready ...
10 Ways To Free Your Business Writing, by Joanna Young (1)
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Note to Reader - Joanna Young is an exceptionally talented writing coach, a wonderful lady, and I’m proud to say, a good friend. Here she is at her best, gently pushing us to better writing. I’ve been blogging about writing and freedom over the last couple of months and although this might seem like a natural fit for great literature, lyrical poetry or even blogging, how does freedom fit with business writing? A lot of ...
On Writing Well - Review (1)
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I know that I’m not that good a writer, so I’m always looking for ways to improve as much as I can. Being bilingual is also on of my challenges. It definitely has it’s pros, but one of it’s cons is that your thoughts are constantly shifting from language to language. I suspect that us bilinguals have to work harder at double-checking, proofreading, and basically keeping a close eye on grammar. On Writing Well, written ...
Is Your Blog a Media Property (22)
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There are many ways to blog, and there are many reasons to use these tools to build content for the web. No one way is right. Here’s a blogging tip: decide early on whether you’re writing your blog for your own entertainment or if you’re building something with it. This fork in the road is a useful one for deciding what level of success you can aspire to achieve. If you’re writing for yourself, that’s ...
the blinder workstation (or, the poor man’s macbook air) (1)
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This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions. I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the old 12″ G4 PowerBook. (That’s a guilt-free way of saying that I coveted one every time I saw one in the wild.) It’s thicker and heavier, but it’s the poor man’s version of the MacBook Air. Earlier this year, I ...
Help a Reporter (and Yourself) Out (7)
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Ever wonder where journalists and other writers find the experts they quote in their stories? In the past, reporters counted on their own networking, and on a service called ProfNet. ProfNet lets journalists search their database of experts and contact them individually to see if they’d be interested in being interviewed. Until recently, ProfNet has been about the only game in town, as far as finding real experts is concerned. Which might be why their ...
5 Hacks Just For Writers (12)
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It seems like all of us have intensive writing projects going on at any given time. Considering how much creative power such a project can require, it just makes sense to minimize the efforts we have to make for any part of our projects other than the actual writing. In that spirit, these hacks can help you keep your writing on track, and I’ve included a few of the technical resources I use to simplify ...
Creating Good User Guides (1)
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Part copy editing, part technical writing and part training, creating good user guides may be one of the hardest kinds of writing. Creating a user guide that works for anyone - no matter their technical skills - and presenting that content in an elearning or online environment is even harder. It’s what I’ve been trying the past year or so. Simple 1, 2, 3 Recently, I’ve been looking into new ways to present this kind ...
Essays and the Blog (1) (1)
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On August 28, Dick Jones brought to my attention a question about contemporary essays and essayists posed by Bob Harris on Paper Cuts, the blog about books written by the book review editors of The New York Times: In early September, Yale University Press will publish “The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology.” It’s a useful crash course in what the periodical essay once was. There’s Addison and Steele; Dr. Johnson and Boswell; ...
The shorter, greater challenge (1)
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Bear with me while I pop back in time a handful of years to when I messed around with stand-up comedy. For the first few years as an aspiring stand-up comic, one must tread the rocky paths of the open spots. These are the 5 minute - or if you are lucky 10 - slots that most smaller comedy clubs make available to new comics honing their techniques. The open spot routine goes as follows: ...
Minority censorship rules (1)
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How many complaints regarding a book would a publisher require to justify editing and reprinting what some may regard as an offensive word? 5,000? 500? How about just one… Dame Jaqueline Wilson’s My Sister Jodie, a book aimed at the 9 to 11 age group, has sold around 28,000 copies since its release in March this year. After a single complaint about the use of the “twat” in two instances, retailer Adsa pulled the book ...
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image (80) permalink
If you want to write like a best-selling author, you might as well listen to what one of them thinks about writing. George Orwell may be best known for the books Animal Farm and 1984, but there is a lesser-known essay he put together titled, Politics and the English Language, that featured his six rules for better writing: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing ...Shared by jeroendemiranda (14) John (17) Joseph Rodgers (24) Kneale Mann | RedFish Group (25) ming (9) Mitch Joel (8)Meryl's Notes at meryl.net (3) permalink
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