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While there are many things to like about online bookstores (discounted prices, free shipping, access to countless titles), there are also certain disadvantages. For example, you can’t look at more than a few “preview” pages online as...
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As writers and readers, it’s natural that we want to encourage any signs of blossoming talent in young writers we know—students, nieces and nephews, sons and daughters. That might mean passing along a good book, perhaps one we loved as a child—Shel...
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Earlier this week, I read White Oleander author Janet Fitch ’s “ 10 rules for writers ” on Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times blog about “all things bookish.” I especially liked her advice for scenes. “A scene starts...
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Just finished writing a long piece for our magazine’s November issue that is tentatively headlined “25 ways to sharpen your writing,” offering some tricks from the editing trade on how to “strengthen, energize, clarify, and trim...
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Online retailer Amazon announced yesterday that sales of books for Kindle, its e-reader, jumped ahead of hardcover sales in the second quarter of this year. Its press release states that “Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books...
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Amid all the turbulent change in print and online journalism, the loyal print fanatic in me sometimes has no answer to digital dazzle. If you want to take an entertaining little break, dial up the video accompanying The New York Times ' June 28 th...
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In case you caught metro Milwaukee ( The Writer 's home base) on the network news last week for its giant flash flood, your waterlogged correspondent was, unfortunately, right in the middle of it. Writers enjoy irony, so here’s some for you...
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