Of Interest: Poetry While You Wait; To Blurb or Not to Blurb
Oakland resident crafts custom poetry on old typewriter while you wait – Inside Bay Area. On a Hermes Rocket, no less. A fine machine. Perfect for punching up poems on street corners. Bat Terrier...
View ArticleWriting Gear: Pen or Ipad–What’s Your Preference?
Paper or technology, paper or technology, which shall it be? Two interesting posts from the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s ProfHacker column. First, Mark Sample’s case for going paperless (at least...
View ArticleOf Interest: Writer’s Routines, Doodles and Writing By Hand
Katrina Kittle talks about writer’s routines and the sacredness of writing time. And Flavorwire shows you what some famous writers did with their sacred writing time: Writer’s doodles. And, finally, do...
View ArticleSeven Inches of Heaven: The Pencil And Its Variants
“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” –Joyce A. Myers Steven Poole of the Guardian reveals the hideous obsession for pencils that some of us have. (See the article here.) Although Poole...
View ArticleWriting by Hand: Lovely or Luddite?
Excellent essay on writing by hand by Kevin Hartnett at The Millions. An extract: Overall I think there’s greater variance in the quality of the writing I produce by hand. The good stuff I write is...
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