Month: May 2013
Hot days, growing up and being a mom…
The Storyteller
For all who read, write or dream: The Storyteller.
The Wednesday Corner with Uncle Tree
What we talked about today – kidnappings, con-artists, safety, school and other assorted business
Standardized testing and the value of the GREAT TEACHER
Editor’s Corner: 101.8
MacKENZIE\’s Dragonsnest~ Where the wild and wondrous play!Search:MacKENZIE\’s Dragonsnest
The Precision of Words.
“I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don’t use – words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning.” … Geoffrey Rush
It has been a Mad-Mouse sort of week, jostling me between work well done and pounding my head against an impenetrable stone wall, so I hope you bear with me if I am briefer than usual.
Today, as I was typing away at my keyboard (and deleting and typing anew), I began to think about our writer’s tools. The fact is, as a profession, writing is extremely light when it comes to essential implements. Pen and paper, they’re the basics. Of course, it’s the 21st century, and most of us have exchanged blank bond for a computer screen – to the eternal gratitude of many a pulpwood forest and their denizens. Much as I have come to rely on my computer, the Luddite in me still finds eternal delight in the feel of a fine fountain pen dancing across a pristine page…
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