Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Author Mini-Profile: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of sea captain Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Hawthorne. His father was a descendent of John Hawthorne, one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and was lost at sea when the young Nathaniel was 4. He and...
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Friday, March 11, 2005
Mini Author Profile: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
On March 11, 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published. She was 21. In Shelley's tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. The gentle, intellectually gifted creature is enormous and physically hideous. Cruelly...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Mini Author Profile: Tough Guy, Mickey Spillane
March 9 is the birthday of crime novelist Mickey Spillane, pen name of Frank Morrison, born in Brooklyn, NY (1918), one of my personal favorites. He was the only Irish boy in a tough Polish neighborhood, and grew up defending himself. His father worked in a hardware store, and there Spillane saw a...
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Monday, March 7, 2005
Fired for Blogging!
Ripped from today's headlines! For the full story, go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/07/tech/main678554.shtml Copyright restrictions prohibit reprinting the article here, but it's on the internet news today. The problems don't seem to have resulted from individuals blogging at work (none...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Goals
If you haven't yet, try to find your way to GinnieB's goals blog. Her latest post is http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ginnieb4498/231137. She had the great idea of setting weekly goals before the whole Blogit world. I'm almost there, and I have until tomorrow to finish. Good luck!
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Springboard to Writing
For anyone looking for new ideas to inspire them into fiction or nonfiction, here are some events that occurred on this day in history. Hope you find something that makes you sit up and start writing. 0374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
E.A. Poe, Writer.
On the anniversary of Poe's birthday, January 19, I offer a brief history and sample of his works. I honor and remember him on this day each year. "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe, an excerpt from The Fall of the House of Usher. The Haunted Palace In the greenest of our valleys, By good...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
A Little Help From My Friends
And yours, if they include some of the great poets. Some time ago, I acquired a deck of 48 cards called Poet’s Corner, a Knowledge Cards(tm) Deck of Great Poems. Text is by Alan Bisbort. It’s a fascinating little pack of shiny finish, larger-than-playing cards. Each card has a few lines from a poem,...
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
From My Writing Bookshelf - II
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron The subtitle to this book is "How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You." In library cataloging, it is filed in psychology section, but I believe it can also be of use to writers. There are some good character study points in this text. The author...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
A Few More Writing Links
At http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ you will find "The Writer’s Almanac," sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media. You can access the site every day or have a free email subscription. A poem is featured every day, as well as events of interest to writers. It’s a nice...
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