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Kristine Hansen, ASJA
It sounds cliché but it's true: every writer needs a writers group. I'm not talking about online forums or Facebook groups. The ability to look each other in the eye and talk candidly about one's writing is, well, priceless.
Eleven years ago I answered a Craigslist ad. With the same level of expectations I might have had if exchanging cash for a bookcase, I showed up at some guy’s house in the Brady Street neighborhood of Milwaukee. We (a group of five people) met a few more times before the group’s founder announced he was moving to San Francisco. Myself and another member vowed to keep the group running. Slowly we’ve added more members. We now have nine people.
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ASJA
On April 1, 1982, ASJA held its "Read-out" event on the steps of the New York Public Library to protest the banning of books. Members were joined in reading banned book out loud by several well-known authors and actresses including: Susan Strasberg and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Writer's Digest
Author Lene Fogelberg, writes: "Every child in Sweden starts learning English in fourth grade, and from the beginning the new language pulled me in. Growing up, I read Whitman, Dickinson, Tennyson, Eliot, wide-eyed, lingering over their words. Inspired by these poets I even made attempts at writing my own poems, in English, and I even had a 'Shakespeare period' in my teenage years, when I memorized my favorite sonnets and tried to imitate their melodious iambic pentameter. "
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Publishers Weekly
Before she was a New York Times – bestselling author, Victorine E. Lieske was a busy entrepreneur who injured her back lifting her daughter out of a car seat. Lieske was on bed rest for a week while her muscles healed. The rubber stamp business she and her husband ran out of their house in Seward, Nebraska, had to be put on hold — and she decided it was as good a time as any to try to write a novel.
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Nieman Lab
Every day, readers are faced with a firehose of news online. News organizations realize this, and they're trying a bunch of different ways to make the news more manageable — creating chatty summaries of their own stories or publishing extra mobile-friendly content like short Q&As. Some publishers are juggling apps and newsletters.
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The New York Times
A stylish visitor to Condé Nast's new headquarters at 1 World Trade Center unwittingly kicked up a social media storm in August when she somehow got her Christian Louboutin stiletto wedged into the escalator, stopping the machinery dead in its tracks. There it was, the abandoned shoe, at the top of the mechanical staircase, its spike heel lodged between steel treads, its telltale crimson sole visible to anyone who walked by.
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BOING BOING
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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Los Angeles Times
Aspiring writers often ask established authors, "How did you do it?" The truth is that there is no single path to literary success. We sent a nonscientific survey to writers participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Did they keep a diary as a child? Did they ever have a book rejected?
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