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R/W: Resolve, Rethink, and Write [GIFs]

My deepest regret for 2014 is that I spent so little time writing. Instead, I focused on growing the site — worth the attention, obviously, and it did pay off. But I’ve been wanting to get back into a rhythm of writing substantively, regularly, and without agony. Then Angel tweeted about building a personal blog calendar and whoa — whoa,…

R/W: The Real and the Robotic

What does it mean to write a realistic novel? Or a realistic screenplay? Does psychological realism depend on the use of one or another sets of literary tricks? Does it feel real — is that the ultimate test? Some weeks ago now, a famous writer said that Shakespeare sucks because his work is unrealistic and…

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R/W: The Gauntlet Thrown Down

Writing Tips The challenge, should you choose to accept it, you must include at least one of the words on this Buzzfeed list of “old-timey” words in your next conversation. Does that sound like a bunch of stultiloquence to you? Well, whoever said a little tommyrot was ever bad for you? So get your monkeyshine on…

R/W: Write, Translate, Fantasize

Welcome back to R/W, our weekend linkblog on writing, reading, language, and literacy. This week we’re thinking about writing mechanics, reading mechanics, and the politics of translation. I am always happy to find great articles and sites from industry experts that can help me improve my skills as a writer. I especially like articles that…

R/W: Do Worry

Well, add another book to my Jane Austen fangurl collection. Jane Austen Cover to Cover by Margaret Sullivan explores the various covers of Austen’s oeuvre. The covers are not only a delightful way to engaged with Austen’s continued legacy, but also to learn a little about what Austen’s books mean to a particular era. The…

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R/W: Concepts and Concept Art

A contest? For me? Yes, you! Glimmer Train is a pretty cool short story journal that pays out $50,000 every year to writers. It is a rare survivor, but continues to be successful in its attempts to showcase new work, and often new writers. Their New Writer Contest deadline is coming up. Details from their email: “Deadline:…

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R/W: Doing it Better

How to write? How to edit? How to history? This week’s literary links go instructive. Wonder Woman: The Weird True Story Sarah Kerr reviews two of the laterst Wonder Woman books in conversation with each other: The Secret History of Wonder Woman from Jill Lepore, and Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley. Wonder Woman was one…

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R/W: Flimflam, Fonts… Flaubert?

Welcome back to R/W, our weekend collaborative linkblog about language, literacy, and learning! Steven Pinker has a new book out, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, and Mother Jones likes it a lot. They’re geeking out over it and Pinker’s revelation that according to science, blah-de-blah grammar…

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R/W: A Difficulty with Dialect

A Difficulty with Dialect This summer, I read The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson. I didn’t end up enjoying the story, but I did enjoy reading a book that took me back to the country of my birth. Not simply because it was set in Caribbean islands, but because it was written in a…

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R/W: Adult Human Female

Word Nerdery Woman. Noun. An adult human female. Google suggests: “a female worker or employee; a wife, girlfriend, or lover.” Pack mule, brood mare, treasured possession. Ouch, Google. That’s way harsh. As usual, the Online Etymology Dictionary is more useful, and more interesting: “adult female human,” late Old English wimman, wiman (plural wimmen), literally “woman-man,” alteration…

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R/W: The Original Problem Millennial–Y2K

Word Nerdery This subject was suggested to me by Gibson Twist of Pictures of You.  Every century and millennial end comes loaded with hefty dose of end-times paranoia, bacchanalia, and scoffing. Lately there was the fake Mayan doomsday prophecy and only a scant twelve years before that, our first millennial problem child, Y2K itself.

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