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“The people at the top don’t work just harder, or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell discusses research by K. Anders Ericsson suggesting that expertise and success are far from being just about talent. They are built slowly, from …
As I’m reading books in preparation for an essay about the effects of 21st technology on writers, I’m—at the same time—immersing myself in technology this summer. Is that wrong? I just ordered an iPad 2 (yes, that’s a squeal of delight you hear!), learned how to format Kindle books (so much easier and more fun …
This week’s Flash Narrative is forthcoming (probably tomorrow) and will experiment with a new form: video! I’m having a lot of fun this summer playing around with different kinds of design—I just learned how to format Kindle books, for example, and also plan to design a set of blog icons. Something else I’m having fun …
Tomorrow I will continue my discussion of The Shallows, but today I want to take a moment to celebrate. First, a warm and hearty congratulations to fellow Great Potential Press authors Joy Lawson Davis and Teresa Smith Masiello for their recent Arizona Book Awards! Joy won in the Parenting/Family Issues category for Bright, Talented and …
From The Guardian: Writers at their Typewriters (a photo essay) From Stylist Magazine: The Best 100 Opening Lines from Books From Salon: Death to High School English “I’ve sat at my desk, a stack of their two-to-three-page papers before me, and felt overwhelmed to the point of physical paralysis by all the things they don’t …