…at the Festival of Books today! We had so many visitors stay and chat with us, and take business cards and information with them, we could not keep track of them all. The stack of business cards used for raffle entries (and therefore joining our mailing list) soon became a chaotic big pile behind the […]
How the Human Soul is like Miso Soup
When it is poured into the bowl of human consciousness, it is all mixed up, swirling and opaque. Allow it to sit undisturbed in solitude and it settles & clears. Spin the settled bowl slowly between your hands to observe the effect of fretting, in your soul: anxiety does not change the distribution of things […]
A truly frightening fractal tale
Happy Halloween! I don’t work with horror much, it’s not a genre I enjoy, but as I have mentioned before, the line between horror and humor can be a fine one. Sometimes a story that was probably written as a light-hearted approach to social critique strikes genuine terror into me. This is one of those times. […]
Literacy = Reading + Writing
I’ve had the privilege of working with scholars and authors from all over the world, and the contrasts (and unexpected similarities) in their approaches to reading and writing are striking. One is not necessarily better or worse than another, but they sometimes run opposite to one another, and that can get an international scholar into […]
Happy Birthday, President Washington!
George Washington’s birthday. To honor our nation’s first (and arguably greatest) president, I took this opportunity to demonstrate J. Robert Clinton’s “scan” reading strategy, by reading Woodrow Wilson’s biography of George Washington in less than twenty minutes. I am fortunate to have a 1907 printing of this book, passed down to me from my mother’s […]
What books will help me get started as an editor?
It really depends on the kind of writing you want to edit. Academic editing is a very different creature from literary editing, and business editing/corporate communications falls somewhere in between them …and too often falls right through that crack into sad oblivion. Books and websites are great, but I strongly recommend that you attend a […]
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