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Howdy, Campers and Happy Poetry Friday!
I stress when I have a blog post to write on a favorite online writing resource and no time to write it. Can you relate? In that case, it's nice to have a caring blog-buddy name Carmela who has extra resources in her big floppy bag and tosses me one as I frantically run by.
In the spirit of generous blogging, Carmela has handed me
20 Inspirational Apps and Online Resources for Writers. How cool is that for a hot summer writing resource?
Yep, there are lots of great resources on that link. However, may I express a nagging uneasiness about certain apps? Based on several friends' recommendations, I downloaded
Evernote, which is included in this list. I was looking for a useful To Do List app and this apparently fits the bill.
What creeps me out was that in order to access this marvelous and free app, you have to allow it to access all of your contacts.
ALL OF MY CONTACTS? Evernote wants the phone number of my vet? Of my dead podiatrist who I loved so much I cannot bring myself to delete from my phone? Of Uncle Davie?
Uncle Davie and Eli.
Evernote wants/GETS all these precious people?
I couldn't do it. I couldn't surrender my peeps for a free app.
PRIVATE
by April Halprin Wayland
I'm not openin'
my phone book
to apps.
And I'm hopin'
your phone book
is snapped.
poem © 2013 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
Now I'm off to my critique group. Wish me luck! And if you find that one of these resources is particularly wonderful, please let us know...
and remember to enter our contest to win a copy of our very own
Jill Esbaum's newest book! Click for all the dino details:
Angry Birds Playground: Dinosaurs. You still have time--the contest ends June 18th!
Dive into your summer writing!
drawing © 2013 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
April Halprin Wayland
Why
not make the living – AND – the
learning easy this Summertime by
signing up to receive daily and/or weekly emails from three of my very favorite
all-year-long online services?
(1) A.Word.A.Day with Anu
Garg
The New York Times called A.Word.A.Day “The most
welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace.”
Monday through Friday, subscribers receive a new
word, one of five purposefully grouped words that underscore a particular
teaching point.
This past week?
Selected words were those that appeared to be misspellings:
calyculus
swoopstake
theocrasy
agrement
jargoon
How fun to learn why and how they weren’t!
Take a look at Friday’s post for jargon to see all that each post offers:
jargoon
PRONUNCIATION:
(jahr-GOON)
MEANING:
noun: A colorless, pale
yellow, or smoky variety of zircon.
ETYMOLOGY:
From
French jargon, from Italian giargone, from Persian zargun (golden). Earliest
documented use: 1769.
USAGE:
"The
genial jeweler then suggested white jargoon."
P.G. Wodehouse; The Intrusion of Jimmy; W.J. Watt and Co.; 1910.
Explore "jargoon" in the Visual Thesaurus.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The
greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and
the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J.
Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)
I especially enjoy the Visual Thesaurus.
I especially appreciate
the added inclusion of previous days’ words, just in case the definitions and
pronunciations had somehow lost their place on my brain’s Hard Drive.
Click here to increase your vocabulary on a daily basis.
You can send a Gift Subscription too!
Thanks
to my bi-lingual Brazilian-born grandson, Brazilian Portuguese is my Transparent language of choice.
Truthfully,
I still don’t speak this language well – and my sweet, sweet lindo namerado (little boyfriend) recently turned three.
BUT,
I do understand his words and conversation.
I
especially love the ability to hear a
native speak the word, not only by itself but in a sentence.
And
like A.Word.A.Day, I can always return to previous words that – somehow –
refused to stick. J
Today’s
entry?
Portuguese
word: Amanhã
English
translation: Tomorrow
Part
of speech: Adverb
Portuguese
examples: Meu filho chega
amanhã de sua viagem.
English examples: My son arrives tomorrow from his trip.
| I have always relied on Booklist, the bi-monthly review journal of the American Library Association, available at most libraries, to keep me sharp and smart when it comes to the best of the children’s books being published. |
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I’m happy to report that many free Booklist offerings are now available online.
For example,
the Great Reads page, with terrific book recommendations for both kids and adults,
the Bookends blog by Cindy and Lynn,
the monthly youth e-newsletters Quick Tips, aimed at connecting books to the classroom, and the new e-newsletter focused on YA Books, Booklandia,
and the free Webinars.
Maybe amanhã you'll check out the above, thus making sure your summer's living and learning are easy?
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Do you spend too much time worrying about publishing trends and not enough time writing?
On today’s edition of the Morning Media Menu, we spoke with Leah Konen, the author of The After Girls. She shared writing advice for aspiring YA novelists. She also explained how a Mediabistro writing course helped her get published. Here’s an important tip:
My first piece of advice would be to really write YA because want to write YA. It’s become very popular now and sometimes people think commercially it will do the best. You have to have a passion for the voice and the tone and this idea of going back to childhood and your teenage years. You should pursue it, if that’s why you’re doing it. Not just because it happens to be the genre with the most movie deals.
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Can you name all the trees, flowers and birds around you? According to legend, the great novelist Vladimir Nabokov once met a Cornell University who asked Nabokov for writing advice. The writing student received this curt reply:
Nabokov looks up from his reading he points to a tree outside his office window. ‘What kind of tree is that?’ he asks the student. ‘What?’ ‘What is the name of that tree?’ asks Nabokov. ‘The one outside my window.’ ‘I don’t know,’says the student. ‘You’ll never be a writer.’ says Nabokov.”
Debut novelist Brian Kimberling published Snapper this week, a novel drawn from his own experience as a bird researcher. His book is filled with careful and unexpected descriptions of nature, so we caught up with Kimberling for some nature writing advice…
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A Rutgers PhD student recently lost five years of work when a computer was stolen, and they posted a heartbreaking message that has since earned more than a million views online (embedded above).
This is the perfect reminder to BACK UP YOUR WORK. Social Times rounded up the Top 8 Free File Sharing Sites, enough free storage to save every bit of digital work you have ever created. Here are two free offerings from the long list:
1. Box: gives you 5 GB of storage for free and lets you organize your files into folders in the cloud, just like you would on your desktop. You can share links or entire file folders with others and see when they’ve been viewed.
2. Bitcasa: stores up to 10 GB worth of free files, photos, playlists, videos and docs that can be accessed from any device (and reportedly goes up to infinity for paying customers).
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At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last weekend, three writers shared advice for aspiring children’s book authors.
During the “Pictures on the Page: The Art of Children’s Books” panel discussion, Blue Chameleon author Emily Gravett, Hang Glider & Mud Mask co-author Brian McMullen and Not a Box author Antoinette Portis talked about their craft and writing lives.
Below, we’ve collected their advice for aspiring authors…
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Struggling to find the best self-publishing platform for your book?
To help aspiring self-published authors navigate the tricky world of publishing platforms, we have collected video tutorials to help you explore these booming marketplaces before loading your book. Follow the links below to watch the videos…
Amazon Kindle Publishing Video Tutorial
Barnes & Noble NOOK Press Video Tutorial
Smashwords Publishing Video Tutorial
Apple iBooks Author Video Tutorial
Kobo Writing Life Video Tutorial
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Will you celebrate National Scrabble Day on April 13? David Bukszpan, author of Is That a Word?: From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of Scrabble, will play Scrabble at The Brooklyn Strategist to celebrate the holiday.
The author shared some Scrabble strategies last year on the Morning Media Menu, revealing some literary secrets that GalleyCat readers can use while playing. Press play at the bottom of this post to listen to the whole interview.
He gave GalleyCat readers a special gift: an enormous list of book-related words you can play in Scrabble.
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How do you prepare for pitching your next article or book? On today’s edition of the Morning Media Menu, we spoke with Daniel Pink, the bestselling author of To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others.
Pink explored his new book, sharing some unexpected rejection advice for writers. He also explained how he used Qualtrics Research Suite to gather reporting for his book. Here’s an excerpt:
If you’re going to pitch a book or pitch an article to a magazine editor, the conventional view is that we should pump ourselves up that we should say to ourselves, “You can do it!” Positive, affirmative self-talk. What the research shows is that it’s actually more effective to questions your abilities. To go from “You can do it” to “Can you do this?” Because questions, by their very nature, elicit an active response. So when you say “Can you do this?” you have to answer. And in that answer is the preparation, the rehearsal and the review of the strategy. I’ve used that a lot, going from positive, affirmative self-talk to interrogative self-talk.
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How many readers remember the old school joy of turning a full page of handwritten notes and running your hands along the bumpy underside of the page?
One Reddit user snapped a photograph (embedded above) of a recently finished page of notes, writing “does anyone else feel oddly satisfied by turning the page after writing for a while to see this?” So far, that photograph has been viewed nearly 38,000 times online.
If that picture made you happy, check out our What Is Your Favorite Kind of Pen? post and our Ballpoint Pen Fan Fiction collection.
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Have you ever wanted to share your life story in a memoir? To get some tips, we caught up with Jon Reiner–the author who teaches Mediabistro’s upcoming Memoir Writing course.
Reiner shared the story of his award-winning memoir, The Man Who Couldn’t Eat along with advice for writing a great memoir. Check out the highlights from our interview below…
Q: What advice do you have for others who want to write their own memoir?
A: Figure out the story first and test it with a trusted, critical reader or editor. Is the story compelling enough to keep a reader interested? That’s the first test and you can’t fudge it. If you believe the story can work, begin to write in a scene structure to avoid falling into the confessional diary pattern. If you find that it’s moving and scenes are begetting scenes, keep going.
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Are you struggling to write a nonfiction query letter to literary agents?
Once you find an agent you would like to represent your book, the pitch letter is the next step in the traditional publishing process.
Below, we’ve collected 11 different agent pitch letters that actually worked for different kinds of nonfiction writers. If you write fiction, check out our collection of 23 fiction query letter that actually worked.
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Are you looking for a writers group? Writers groups can motivate you to write more, critique your work or even help you publicize your work.
We have created an experimental project to connect writers around the globe, helping GalleyCat readers create writers groups both online and in the real world.
Sign up to join our free directory here. Once you fill out the simple form, you will be able to access our complete directory of GalleyCat readers who are looking for a writers group.
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Today, I'm thrilled to announce an extra-special giveaway in honor of our FOURTH BLOGIVERSARY. To show our appreciation to our blog readers AND to one of our favorite independent booksellers, we'll be giving away FOUR $25 gift certificates to Anderson's Bookshops! And, as a bonus, Anderson's is generously offering our winners a 20% discount, which will help defray the shipping costs if you're unable to redeem your gift certificate in person.
In case you're not familiar with this family-owned company, in 2010, Anderson's celebrated their 135th year in business, with six generations of the family now working in their stores. Among their
many accolades, in 2011, Anderson's was named
Publisher's Weekly Bookstore of the Year. Anderson's has a long history of supporting teachers by providing educator resources like
mock Newbery contests, arranging author visits, and sponsoring special events such as their upcoming
Teacher Open House, where educators can learn about the best new releases for classroom use. And educators always receive a 20% discount off the
list price of books to be used in the classroom or library.
Anderson's also has a reputation for hosting wonderful (and numerous!) author signings, and for championing local authors. After many years of attending Anderson's marvelous author events, I was honored to have my first signing at the Naperville store when my novel,
Rosa, Sola, came out. That day, the Anderson's staff made me feel like a real star! I couldn't help getting a little teary-eyed as I addressed the crowd of family, friends, and fellow writers, telling them what a thrill it was to have my signing in the bookstore that felt like my second home.
If you're ever in the Chicago area, I encourage you to visit one of Anderson's stores. But even if a physical trip isn't possible, you can visit them virtually
via their website, where you can order print and
ebooks online. As you'll see below, the winners of our giveaway will have the option of using their gift certificates that way.
The
TeachingAuthors are fans not only of Anderson's, but of independent bookstores everywhere. For the next few weeks, we'll be sharing stories of our appreciation for independent booksellers. Meanwhile, I was pleasantly surprised by the encouraging news the
Salon article "Books Aren't Dead" had about both print books and independent bookstores:
". . . the Christian Science Monitor recently reported [you can read that article here], there are now many indications that a once-beleaguered portion of the bookselling landscape, independent bookstores, are enjoying a “quiet resurgence.” Sales are up this year; established stores, such as Brooklyn’s WORD, are doing well enough to expand and new stores are opening. Indies have been helped by the closure of the Borders chain and a campaign to remind their customers that if they want local bookstores to survive, they have to patronize them, even if that means paying a dollar or two more than they would on Amazon."
I confess, I'm one of those book buyers willing to pay "a dollar or two more" to support my local independent. I want to help ensure they'll still be around when I finally have another book signing. :-)
In addition to celebrating independent booksellers, we decided our blogiversary was a good time for a little spring
cleaning here on the
TeachingAuthors website. I've created two new pages,
which you can find links to under our logo at the top of the page:
Links and
Writing Workouts. The
Links page now contains all the
links that used to be in the sidebar, grouped under the following
headings:
- Websites of Note
- Children's/YA Lit Reading Lists
- Graduate
Programs in Writing for Children and Young Adults
- General Children's/YA
Lit Blogs
- Agent Blogs
- Author/Illustrator Blogs.
The
Writing Workouts page explains the history and evolution of our Writing
Workouts, and allows you to access all of them from one place. I've also
shortened the names of our resources pages to simply "
For Teachers,"
"
For Young Writers," and "
Visits." And I've updated our bios on the
About Us page. I hope you'll take time to explore
these revised pages and give us feedback on what you think of the
changes.
You may also notice a new button in the sidebar labeled "Follow this blog with bloglovin'." I recently learned that
Google will be retiring Google Reader on July 1, 2013, and I wanted to provide other options for those who currently read our posts via Reader.
Bloglovin' allows you to easily import all the blogs you currently follow with Google Reader. I've also seen positive reviews of the RSS service
Feedly (see, for example, this
recommendation in Jane Friedman's newsletter, Electric Speed), so I've included a Feedly link in the sidebar, too. You can read
a quick comparison of Bloglovin' vs. Feedly here.
If you don't already follow our blog, I'll hope you'll sign up to do so today via email, Bloglovin', Feedly, or one of the other options in our sidebar. (Hint--our blog subscribers automatically qualify for
FOUR entries in our blogiversary giveaway. See below for details.)
Before I explain how to enter the giveaway, I want to share a poem the AMAZING April Halprin Wayland wrote in honor of our blogiversary, which actually falls on Monday, Earth Day.
A Blooming Blogiversary
Sheaves of paper, leaves of prose
Typing wobbly rocky rows
Planting tender inkling seeds
Sowing words on glowing screens
Underground the spark is struck
Growing with some care and luck
First a shoot, then a sprout
Weeding all the adverbs out
Seedlings reaching toward the sun
Readers, writers we are one
Blooming in the blogisphere
Post by post, year by year
poem © 2013 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
A special "thank you" to all the readers who have stuck with us here at
TeachingAuthors "post by post, year by year."
Now, for our Blogiversary Giveaway details:
As I said at the beginning of this post, in honor of our
Fourth Blogiversary, and to celebrate independent booksellers, we're giving away
FOUR $25 gift certificates to
Anderson's Bookshops!
Note: if you're unable to redeem your prize in person at one of Anderson's stores, you will be able to do so online. AND, you'll receive a 20% discount on your purchase!
Please bear with us as we try something new for this giveaway--we're using
Rafflecopter for the first time. If you've never entered a Rafflecopter giveaway, you may want to read their info on
how to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway and/or the
difference between signing in with Facebook vs. with an email address.
Once you've logged into Rafflecopter below (via either Facebook or an email address) you'll see that we've provided
four different options for entering the giveaway--you can pick one or up to all four. The more options you choose, the greater your chances of winning. While we haven't made it a requirement, we hope that everyone will choose to subscribe to the
TeachingAuthors blog. If you're already a subscriber, to enter, you need only click on that option and then tell us how you follow our blog.
As it says in the "Terms and Conditions," this giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. You must be 18 or older to enter. And please note: email addresses will
only be used to contact winners. The giveaway will run from now through the end of
Children's Book Week, on May 19. Winners will be notified May 20, 2013.
I hope that covers everything. But if you have any questions about the giveaway, feel free to email us at teachingauthors [at] gmail [dot] com.
Good luck to everyone! And don't forget--it's
Poetry Friday. When you're done entering our giveaway, check out the Poetry Friday round-up over at
Live Your Poem.
Happy writing!
Carmela
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Over at The Atlantic, Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid discussed one of his “all-time favorite passages in literature,” a quote from the Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
Talking about his own journey as a writer, Murakami explained: “writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”
If you want to get in shape this year, we found some free fitness apps for writers to help you feel better as you write. Also check out our how to write like Haruki Murakami post, taking writing wisdom from his epic novel, 1Q84.
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When
it comes to celebrating Teen Technology, I feel Mary Ann’s and Jill’s pain.
I
don’t exactly qualify as a Teen.
(Click
HERE to see just which high school Reunion I’m attending this May.)
And,
this is the book I’m currently reading.
I
also boldly revealed my Inner Luddite in a post last March. (Click HERE.)
BUT…
I
sure do love to CLICK, then follow the links to CONNECT with all sorts of
wondrous People, Places and Things.
Oh,
the Possibilities!
Sigh.
Ah,
the Opportunities!
For
instance, there I was,
letting
my fingers stroll the Internet on behalf of a writer with a UK-suited book,
and
what did I come upon but
That’s
why I’m wishing you a belated Happy World Book Day!
This
site is ripe with new books, authors and curriculum connections for readers,
writers, teachers and librarians.
(And
yes, I found three, count ’em,
three publishing possibilities for my writer.)
Booklist
Editor Gillian Engberg sent me a lovely Quick Tips email, calling my attention
to
Writing Resources for the Common Core Classroom.
Clicking
and connecting I came upon a terrific timely
opportunity for Kiddos co-sponsored by DC Comics and Capstone – The “Be a Super Hero, Read!” Writing Contest. Running
through April 15, the Contest encourages kids in grades 3 through 6 to write
about a real-life superhero in their lives.
Click
HERE for the Rules.
And
speaking of writing Kiddos, how could I not
click on the Denver Post’s Next Gen, the online newspaper for youth-written
stories.
I’d
met several middle school reporters during my visit to the Colorado International Reading
Association Conference in February.
Click
HERE and connect to Collin Colaizzi and his write-up of author and Writing Guru
Ralph Fletcher’s talk on the importance of a Writer’s Notebook.
It
turns out that, despite my long-gone teenage years and my lack of Tech savvy,
my Inner Luddite and I have had One Swell
Time CLICKING and CONNECTING this past week, occasioning numerous opportunities
to showcase our gelasins.
(Click
HERE if you’re eager to learn last week’s A.Word.A.Day.)
Who
knows?
Maybe
someday soon I’ll be CLICKING and MANUFACTURING,
thanks to the opportunities and possibilities of Tech’s newest child, 3-D Printing!
(Oy!)
Happy Clicking and Connecting!
Esther
Hershenhorn
P.S.
Be sure to click
HERE to enter to win Tamera Wissinger’s Gone
Fishing: A Novel in Verse. You only have until 11 pm, Wednesday, March 13.
Writers around the world struggle to pay the bills and maintain a writing career in their free time.
Over at the screenwriting section of Reddit, readers compiled a list of the best jobs you can take while working on your first script.
We’ve collected these suggestions below, but it is a question we’d like to pose for all GalleyCat readers–what are the best day jobs for writers?
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In a special Google Docs demonstration online, you can collaborate on a story with Charles Dickens, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.
As you type your text into the demo box, these writers will add little flourishes and quotes to your story.
We created a short story with the help of Dickens and Nietzsche, click on the image embedded above to see the collaboration in action. Who will you write with?
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Want to beat writer’s block every single day?
The Typetrigger site delivers simple writing prompts every day, letting writers share their 300-word responses with a growing writing community. Recent triggers included: “hard back, warble,rebuild, ups & downs,
over the top and
strongest of all.
Check it out: “Four times a day, we help you get the words out. Write in any genre in 300 words or less. Hit publish. Read. Be Read. Write. Now.”
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Researchers have discovered “a clear decrease in the overall use of mood words” in our writing. They also noticed a rising use of fear words in the last thirty years (mood words chart embedded above).
In “The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books” at PLOS ONE researchers Alberto Acerbi, Vasileios Lampos, Philip Garnett and R. Alexander Bentley studied the use of mood words in six different categories: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Joy, Sadness and Surprise. They explored digitized books in Google’s Ngram database to conduct the research. Here’s more:
Our second finding is a clear decrease in the overall use of mood words through time. We performed checks to confirm that the overall decrease in mood word frequency in the data is not merely a reflection of, for example, greater numbers of technically-oriented or scientific books through time. Although the Ngram database does not give an explicit breakdown of book subject categories, we analyzed the same mood word lists on Google’s 1-grams English Fiction data set, which contains only works of fiction and literary criticism. In support of a real decrease in literary emotion, we found a similar decrease in the overall use of mood words.
(Via NYT and WWLA)
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Bring your idea or outline to life and get published. Join our online Novel Writing class starting April 10. Save $75 on enrollment with the code LONGPROSE
Our course instructor, Erika Mailman, is the author of The Witch’s Trinity and Women of Ill Fame. She’ll show you how to get your novel off the ground.
- Write a strong outline — and when to change it
- Create believable characters, a consistent tone and common point of view
- Understand the secret to dynamic dialogue
- Provide and receive useful feedback
Students who have taken this class have been published with Simon & Schuster, Voice, and Forge.
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As you build your author site, blog or publishing website, finding photographs is always a struggle.
AppNewser has more about a new site that connects writers and photographers, creating an easy and ethical way to embed great photographs in your site. Check it out:
Looking for images to post on your blog? The new site Imgembed lets you browse over one million images by keywords and find images you can embed for free. As you can see by the keyboard photograph embedded above, the site gives you an embed code with the artist’s name in the frame–a great way to credit the photographer behind your image.
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The great critic and author Roger Ebert died yesterday, leaving behind a bookshelf filled with his writing.
The film critic also wrote a number of essays and posts about the writing life, sharing some valuable advice for all writers. To celebrate his memory, we’ve collected some of our favorite Ebert quotes. Ebert offered this advice for writers:
There is no such thing as waiting for inspiration. The idea of “diagramming” an essay in advance, as we are taught in school, may be useful to students but is foolishness for any practicing writer. The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
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Do you dream of using crowdfunding to support a writing or research project that you could never tackle by yourself?
Today on the Morning Media Menu, journalist and literary blogger Edward Champion introduced his Indiegogo campaign to raise money to take and document 3,000-mile walk across the country. He also talked about his dispatches from the roadand shared advice for creating perks for your campaign. Here’s an excerpt:
This is, above all, a vicarious experience in which I hope to impart vital knowledge and awareness of the many people who live between Brooklyn and San Francisco who don’t get the kind of massive and detailed attention that this particular project will offer (that other mainstream outlets do not). It’s the kind of thing you can imagine, maybe even five or ten years ago, magazines might have put up money for this. But those days are now gone. This is long, long form journalism and it’s the kind of thing that may only be possible through something like IndieGoGo or crowdfunding.
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This GalleyCat editor spent his weekend transcribing interviews. If you are working on a budget, paying someone to transcribe your work is out of the question.
What tools do you use to transcribe? Over at AppNewser, we collected free resources for manually transcribing recorded interviews. Check it out:
I’ve rounded up a few free apps for manually transcribing long interviews. I spent the weekend using the free Transcribe tool for Google Chrome, an elegant, simple add-on that gives you the ability to slow down or speed up a recording while transcribing. It works on both Macs and PCs.
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Yeah, that is kind of creepy that they want all your contacts. I think you did the right thing!
Your poem captures that technological pervasiveness that is our society spot on, April! I don't have a "smart phone" (our's is dumb) so I don't have access to apps, but so many things on Facebook ask for way too much info, too! Kind of scary.
Ick, April. I won't give a third party this stuff, either. Creeps me out. It's bad enough that too many online retailers have my credit card on file. *shudder*
Love the photo, April. Wish it was me. :-)
I use a program/app called Springpad for my to-do list, though it has lots of other uses as well. It's free on came be used on your computer and other devices, like my NookColor. (I don't have a smart phone.) They didn't ask for my contact list when I signed up. You can check it out here:
http://springpad.com/about
Thanks for the vote of YES, Ruth. I think each app really does have a price and we have to decide what we're willing to pay...
Scary, creepy, icky--yes, Bridget & Jill. But, we're the first generation. We're all in this together and we'll get it right...it will just take awhile (she says optimistically!)
Carmela--I'll see if downloading Springpad on my phone is different. Maybe it asks for it if it's on a smartphone.
That's a great list of resources!
I do use Evernote, but I don't recall allowing it access to my contacts? I like that I can write notes in it and email them to myself. I also used it once on my iPad when I had to make a speech. It was easier to read on the device. But I understand your concern. I don't think much that we do is private anymore. Someone somewhere knows that I am sitting in my kitchen typing this note to you. Hmm.
Margaret, perhaps Evernote doesn't ask for contacts if you're downloading it to a computer or pad...but it told me that's what it was going to do if I downloaded it to my smartphone...
...and yes, someone, somewhere does know that you and I are typing back and forth. (Yoo-whoo! Hi there!)