November 2008

Get Bailed Out! Look It Up In The Dictionary

November 30, 2008

Words define and distinguish. Without words our world becomes amorphous and irrelevant. An amorphous and irrelevant world is self-absorbed. When my son uses an inappropriate expletive I tell him, “Always remember, words define your world.” As a 9th grader, his teachers reveal words to broaden his perspective. He and his friends string phrases that limit, [...]

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What Barack Obama Teaches Writers

November 11, 2008

    Writing doesn’t take too much courage. Heck, you can post a lot of drivel on the Internet. No one may read a word, but you get to express yourself. Billions of words appear daily on the Internet. Some words inspire change and major paradigm shifts. Some face the wrath and doom of Alexa and Google. [...]

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Do Your Words Electrify or Short Circuit Your Ideas

November 1, 2008

Mark Twain wrote, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888 Finding writers with lightning in their pen gets challenging. Seems like lots of folks want to teach us how to write [...]

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