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This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Back to Basics: 10 Things Every Writer Should Do in Their Novel. Photo: brendanovak.com The following is a guest post from bestselling author Brenda Novak.
In writing about the keys to penning a hit novel, Novak reveals a valuable point: It often boils down to nailing the core storytelling basics. 10 Keys to Writing a Bestselling Novel: Do We Dare Write for Readers? - The Chronicle Review. By William Germano Holly Gressley for The Chronicle Review Go ahead.
Keep working on your book. What’s Your Problem? And Why? A recurring theme in Raptitude is that why is a more useful question than what.
Why is the mother of all whats, and tells a much more meaningful story. A 600-foot triangular stack of stones sitting in the Egyptian desert for five thousand years is notable, but it’s the mystery of why someone was compelled to build such a thing that makes it so intriguing. If we only look at events and things, and judge them as if they were isolated entities, we can’t possibly understand them. Procrastination Is Not Laziness. I was going to tackle my procrastination problem last weekend but I never got around to it.
By Sunday at 5:48 p.m. I realized I had blown it again. Throughout the week I feel like I barely have enough time to cook, eat, tidy up, write an article and do the odd errand. I lean towards the weekend, when I have two whole days to finally get some work done. To improve my blog, to catch up on my correspondence, to get some monkeys off my back like fixing things that need fixing, organizing things that need organizing, tackling things that need tackling. This Is The Writing Advice That Changed My Life. Here I am discussing writing advice with one of my favorite new XO contributors, Nia Renee Hill.
After having the same conversation with several different writers -- including the beautiful and talented Nia Renee Hill (pictured) for her most recent pieces, I decided to write this up. At the very end is the writing advice that helped me understand why I used to have so much trouble overthinking and trying to fit everything into one piece -- and that provided a solution that helped me improve my writing dramatically. As I've written about before, doing morning pages has helped improve my writing (and my life) by leaps and bounds.
The advice below is specifically for the more personal memoir style writing we do at xoJane, but it might hit home for others who do various styles. I hope you share your own writing inspiration in the comments! A warning to college profs from a high school teacher. For more than a decade now we have heard that the high-stakes testing obsession in K-12 education that began with the enactment of No Child Left Behind 11 years ago has resulted in high school graduates who don’t think as analytically or as broadly as they should because so much emphasis has been placed on passing standardized tests.
Here, an award-winning high school teacher who just retired, Kenneth Bernstein, warns college professors what they are up against. Bernstein, who lives near Washington, D.C. serves as a peer reviewer for educational journals and publishers, and he is nationally known as the blogger “teacherken.” His e-mail address is kber@earthlink.net. This appeared in Academe, the journal of the American Association of University Professors. Use the DASH Method to Become a Better Writer, Developer, Or Tackle Any Other Creative Task. 5 Things Really Smart People Do. By Kevin Daum, visit Inc.
Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? Bullshit mountain. Throwback Thursday: Back-to-School Beatitudes–10 Academic Survival Tips « The Crunk Feminist Collective. 30 Aug Update, August 2012 Original Post Graduate school was nothing short of an emotional and physical rollercoaster.
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20th-Century British (Lynch) This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Twentieth-Century Literature. PennSound. Filmed in an intimate domestic setting, traffic noises and birdsong drifting through open windows, Patton sits comfortably in a chair before the camera, reading from typescript pages, a pen poised in one hand. She performs in a fluid sprechtstimme, easing in and out of accents and personas, casually adding various musical accompaniments from time to time: she forces the knob on a toddler's toy music box, galloping through the lullabye at a hectic gait, then backs off, plinking it forward in little tonal constellations; she reaches down, offscreen, to plunk a guitar note or stroke the strings behind the nut, producing glassy little accents; her foot settles into a restless and insistent rhythm that resonates through the room.
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