s area ...style guide 1. REPEATS Just about every writer unconsciously leans on a "crutch" word. Hillary Clinton's repeated word is "eager" (can you believe it? Crutch words are usually unremarkable. But even if the word is unusual, and even if you use it differently when you repeat it, don't: Set a higher standard for yourself even if readers won't notice. "Victoria's blue gaze abraded me with the texture of ground glass." page 202 "... The same goes for repeats of several words together - a phrase or sentence that may seem fresh at first, but, restated many times, draws attention from the author's strengths. "His tone oozes self-righteousness when he says..." page 188 "His voice is barely audible when he says..." page 193 "His tone is unapologetic when he says..." page 199 "Rosie keeps her tone even when she says..." page 200 "His tone is even when he says..." page 205 "I switch to my lawyer voice when I say ..." page 211 "He sounds like Grace when he says..." page 211 What a tragedy. 2. 3.
Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter | Sharing best practices for using social media in Hawaii Writers, Quotes, Biography, Poetry, Fiction, Artists - Paris Review Purchase this Issue $15.00 Michael Holroyd on the art of biography: “I believe in private life for the living, and I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.” And Hermione Lee: “Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it’s a good death. Make sure you’re not picking someone who just declined.” Imre Kertész on the art of fiction: “Perhaps I’m being impertinent, but I feel that my work has a rare quality—I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.” New fiction from Lydia Davis, Ben Lerner, Robert Walser, Gillian Linden, David Gates, and Emma Cline, an essay by Kristin Dombek, and the winner of the NPR Three-Minute Fiction Contest. Poems by Patrizia Cavalli, D. Full Table of Contents ›
Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur While 2011 was a big year for political unrest, another uprising was afoot in the world of content creators and artists. Everywhere you look, artists are taking more control over their own economic well being, in large part because the Internet has enabled them to do so. You see it in all forms of content, from books, to video to music. A few examples from this year: e-books: Probably the most active area in large part because there is huge shifts taking place in digital publishing. Video: The story of the year for artists-as-entrepreneur came at the tail-end, with Louis CK saying no thank you to corporate middlemen and putting his new concert video online for $5 a pop. Radio/Music: All sorts of independent entrepreneurs are putting audio entertainment online, from the rise of podcast kings like Leo Laporte to a huge number of independents like Adam Carolla and Marc Maron. So what is driving this movement towards the artist-entrepreneur that will give it huge momentum in 2012?
Stanley Moss Stanley Moss was educated at Trinity College (Connecticut) and Yale University and makes his living as a private art dealer, specializing in Spanish and Italian Old Masters. As a child he visited Europe with his family, and after serving in World War II he taught English in Barcelona and Rome, where he became familiar with the religious and mythical figures that appear in his work. He is the critically acclaimed author of The Skull of Adam (1979), The Intelligence of Clouds (1989), Asleep in the Garden (1997), A History of Color (2003), New and Selected Poems (2006), Rejoicing (2009), and God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike (2011). Poet and critic Hayden Carruth has been quoted as saying, “The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, but few poets have picked up that argument in recent years. Stanley Moss does.” In 1977 Moss founded Sheep Meadow Press, a nonprofit press devoted to poetry, with a particular focus on international poets in translation. Biography
Bytemarks — The Intersection of Life, Culture and Technology Civic*Celerator Demo Day We are in a campaign year and the candidates are gearing up for a crowded primary. At Civic*Celerator we try to help make sense of where the money comes from for the Hawaii races. The Campaign Spending Commission collects data from each of the candidates as required by law. Civic*Celerator brings together the talents of our civically engaged citizens and coding community to create applications, visualizations and tools to better understand this data. Join us on Saturday, April 19, 2014 at the Iolani School, Sullivan Center for Civic*Celerator Demo Day, where we unveil each teams projects. We thank our good friends at Voqal, Common Cause Hawaii, HTDC along with Code for America, Campaign Spending Commission and Hawaii Open Data for making this possible. Mini Maker Faire Honolulu 2014 Mini Maker Faire attracted almost 750 attendees and 28 maker tables at the beautiful `Iolani School, Sullivan Center on Sat. Doppler on Wheels
36 Writing Essays by Chuck Palahniuk 1: Establishing Your Authority Chuck teaches two principal methods for building a narrative voice your readers will believe in. Discover the Heart Method and the Head Method and how to employ each to greatest effect. 2: Developing a Theme At the core of Minimalism is focusing any piece of writing to support one or two major themes. 3: Using “On-The-Body” Physical Sensation Great writing must reach both the mind and the heart of your reader, but to effectively suspend reality in favor of the fictional world, you must communicate on a physical level, as well. 4: Submerging the “I” First-person narration, for all its immediacy and power, becomes a liability if your reader can't identify with your narrator. 5: Nuts and Bolts: Hiding a Gun Sometimes called "plants and payoffs" in the language of screenwriters, Hiding a Gun is an essential skill to the writer's arsenal that university writing courses almost never touch upon. 6: Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs 8: Nuts and Bolts: Using Choruses
HiTechHawaii HIEDB is a private networking organization that specializes in facilitating federal resource programs and implementation of economic development projects. The Hawaii Venture Capital Association was founded in 1988 to serve as the nexus for entrepreneurship, capital formation and networking. We seek to foster entrepreneurial development through education and exposure to quality speakers and members of our business community. HVCA is a 501 (c) 6 business club which allows us to take a stand on issues critical to developing the technology economy in Hawaii. We work with the Legislature to develop bills and policies to encourage capital formation and help entrepreneurs succeed. ISSA provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities for information security professionals, with the goal of promoting management practices that ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of organizational resources. Global Pau Hana Marine Technology Society Hawaii Cyberpizza