Novel in 90 days 90 days. 67,500 words. No excuses. A novel in 90. The purpose of this community is to help the members complete a novel-length manuscript in a reasonable time, under real-life conditions. The goal is, every day for 90 days, you write three manuscript pages of your work in progress. 750 words. During that time, you may work on other projects. The idea is to get a taste of what working to a deadline is like, and discover how fast steady work does, in fact, add up. We'll do a daily roundup post, in which people can list their progess for the day. Because I am not your mother, you are expected to report for mocking at the end of the week if you haven't met your goals.
25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty How Can We Stop Cheating In Online Courses? 6.11K Views 0 Likes While clearly not every student is trying hard to take the slacker route, it's worth noting that picking out the students trying to take this route gets a little more complicated when you move from taking classes in person to taking classes online. 5 Ways To Have A High-Tech Classroom With What You Already Have 11.45K Views 1 Likes There are a host of ways to use the technology you already have at your fingertips to create a Classroom 2.0. How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology
Wordorigins.org authorsassistants.com Forward Motion for Writers Integrating Infographics into the iClassroom So TechChef4U has caught the Infographics Influenza! Being a bit of a Pinterest fanatic, I have found an easy way to support and feed my Infographics Habit. Continuing to stock pile Educational Infographics on my Pinterest board, I waited until I found an app-ortunity to share these resources with one of my teachers and create a delectable lesson. During my stint as an 8th Math tutor, I had a few of the teachers approach me about engaging math lessons that they could utilize with 8th Math after the STAAR test. I mentioned the topic of infographics and shared a few of the ones I had collected. Then I worked with one of the teachers in particular, Mrs. Pinterest: Educational Infographics “Common Core Standards: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears”
Garbl's Fat-Free-Writing Links [ Home ] [ Style Manual ] [ Plain English Guide ] [ Concise Writing Guide ] [ Writing Bookshelf ] [ What's New ] Garbl's Fat-Free Writing Links is an annotated directory of websites that give advice on cutting the fat from your writing--so your readers can easily chew, digest and be nourished by your top-choice words. Also available here through my association with Amazon.com are several books that provide excellent advice about concise writing. "Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid." Nearly a century ago, renowned British lexicographer H.W. Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Ten years later, in the first edition of The Elements of Style , American English professor William Strunk Jr. urged his students at Cornell University to "Omit needless words": Vigorous writing is concise. Most of us are busy and impatient people.
DIY Writing at WritersBucketList.com How to Describe Your Character's Eye Color How to Describe Eyes (An updated version of this 2K-word article is reproduced in my 15K-word book How to Describe Eyes and Faces. See below.) [First, my profound apologies to the vast majority of readers who don't steal content, but I have to state the following. This article and all content on this website belongs to Val Kovalin, copyright © Obsidianbookshelf.com, except where noted. Even though I recommend "less is more" with physical description in fiction, I love descriptions of characters' eyes: eye-color and other attributes. Go to the Eye Color List (separate page) Go to the Eye-Color Images (further down on this page) Note on Clichés: Be cautious about using the first descriptive words that jump to mind because they're probably clichés. Here at Obsidianbookshelf.com, I'll list the things that seem cliché to me, and you can make up your own mind whether you want to use the terms as they are, improve the terms with additional description, or avoid using them. The Eye-Color Images.
TodaysMeet The Journal 6 - Journal Software/Diary Software - Free Download Ten Things to Help With Novel Plotting Every writer has different plotting methods. I use templates. Holly Lisle uses notecards. Not every writer plots, either -- John Grisham does, Stephen King doesn't. There is no single right way to plot, so it's best to research different methods, try them out, and keep what works for you. Ten Things to Help With Novel Plotting 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. *I haven't updated the copyright note at the bottom of this, but my plotting templates are free for anyone's personal use or non-profit distribution.