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Estelle Erasmus, ASJA
ASJA is a membership organization known for representing the top echelon of freelance writers. According to ASJA's official mission statement, "ASJA is the professional association of independent nonfiction writers. Since 1948 we’ve been giving entrepreneurial journalists the confidence and connections to prosper." It was founded as the New York-centric Society of Magazine Writers in 1948. In the early 1970s, its name was changed to the American Society of Journalists and Authors to reflect its inclusion of nonfiction book authors.
Faced with an aging membership, the venerable institution is dealing with nothing less than an existential crisis. And Dotinga’s parting article as president of ASJA was a desperate cry for action.
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Susan Shafer, ASJA
 At a loss for fresh ideas for your romance novel? Fretting over the next chapter of your true crime manuscript? Puzzled as to how to end your magazine article? Try writing in bed.
Lots of successful writers have composed while horizontal. Some did so for comfort, others to focus their thoughts, still others to fire up their creativity. Let’s look at a few examples.
Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, the author of 50 books, woke every morning at 7:30. After breakfast, which he ate in bed, he spent several hours there dictating chapters of his books and other correspondences to his secretaries.
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Writer's Digest
I’ve just published my seventh novel (Two for the Show, Thomas & Mercer) and all seven have been written on the commuter train between my home in Connecticut and my job in Manhattan. My commute has been so much a part of my novel writing that my first book, The Cold Truth, is dedicated, in part, to "my fellow commuters . . . on the 8:04 from Talmadge Hill." The train commute may even dictate the pace and rhythm of my novels. More than a couple of readers have joked that they can feel the train pulling into Grand Central Station at the end of my short chapters. People have asked me, for years, "how on earth can you write a novel on the train?" Particularly my kind of novel – heavy on plot twists and turns, switchbacks and reversals. "How do you keep all those events, clues, characters, straight in your head?"
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Co.Design
What is it about the Swiss? Or, to be precise: what is it about the Swiss and their sans serif typefaces? Helvetica and Univers both emerged from Switzerland in the same year — 1957 — and went out to shape the modern world. They would sort out not just transport systems but whole cities, and no typefaces ever looked more sure of themselves or their purpose.
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Postlight
LinkedIn is one of our favorite subjects at Postlight — and this feels like an amazing opportunity for some uninformed speculation. Obviously we're taking "LinkedIn will retain its brand, culture and independence" with a Redmond-sized grain of salt. So ... what could happen now? (Note that "could" is emphatically not the same as "should.")
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Nieman Lab
This week, a Facebook executive suggested that your News Feed is likely to be "all video" in the next five years. "We're seeing a year-on-year decline on text. We're seeing a massive increase, as I've said, on both pictures and video," Nicola Mendelsohn said. "If I was having a bet, I would say: video, video, video."
But a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism suggests that text may have a longer run, at least for news.
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Brain Pickings
I recently decided to teach myself to write with my left hand. This unorthodox pastime was sparked in part by rereading the vintage treasure Essays for the Left Hand by the pioneering Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner, one of the loveliest and most underappreciated books written in the twentieth century. Since it was National Poetry Month, every day for the month of April I wrote out a poem a day with my left hand.
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The New York Times
One of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying
The period — the full-stop signal we all learn as children, whose use stretches back at least to the Middle Ages — is gradually being felled in the barrage of instant messaging that has become synonymous with the digital age
So says David Crystal, who has written more than 100 books on language
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The Digital Reader
When Amazon-owned Goodreads launched its discount e-book service last month, I wondered whether Amazon would find reasons to prune back its competition.
The first to lose its affiliate status with Amazon was Fussy Librarian, which went under the axe the week before Goodreads announced. At the time it looked like that was an isolated incident, but now it has been followed by two more sites, Pixel of Ink and eReaderIQ.
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