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5 writing books worth the price

As someone who has gone to school to learn how to write (and graduated With Distinction), I have quite a collection of books that claim to teach people how to write. To some extent, anything that you read will help you become a better writer, as the old prof’s advice goes. Ultimately, you learn how …

August 28, 2010 – 4:58 pm | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Book Reviews, Creativity boosting tools, Writing Tips | Tagged 25-cent notebooks, 5 writing books worth the price, a creative writing degree in a book, Anne Lamott, Ariel Gore, Aristotle, Aristotle's Poetics, Bird by Bird, CD-ROM, Complete Idiot's guides, copywriting, Creativity boosting tools, Darren Rowse, Divine Write, DIY publishing, don't ever buy fancy notebooks, Dummies guides, Fiction Writers Review, footnotes to Plato, full-time blogger, Glenn Murray, How to Become A Famous Writer Before You're Dead, Jennifer Basye Sander, mistakes must be made in defense of art, perfection is the enemy, permission to fail, philosophy, ProBlogger, Reading as Rx, reading as therapy, Sheree Bykofsky, shitty first drafts, Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Stephen King, storytelling, Stuart Spencer, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers, The Playwright's Guidebook, top 5 best writing books, well-read authors, writing tips | Comments (0)

The Bomb by Howard Zinn

As someone who has cultivated an anti-authoritarian reading list since the end of high school (or beginning of college, depending upon your viewpoint), I was eager to read Howard Zinn’s final contribution to the annals of modern history, The Bomb, published this month by the daring muckrakers and perpetual shit-disturbers at City Lights. As a …

August 23, 2010 – 11:18 pm | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Book Reviews, Literature | Tagged A People's History of the United States, Allied Powers, American history, American technical prowess, anti-authoritarian, book reviews, City Lights, Cold War, crusaders against fascism, France, Hannah Arendt, Hiroshim, Hiroshima, Hitler, Howard Zinn, John Hersey, modern history, Ms. Davis, My Country 'Tis of Thee, Nagasaki, napalm, noble war, nuclear bombs, racism, rage, rebellion, retaliation, Royan, Russia, suburb of Chicago, supervillains, the banality of evil, The Bomb, the greatest generation, unquestioned evil, unquestioned good, Vietnam War, WWII | Comments (0)

The wisdom of the Dalai Lama

This morning I woke up early to take a crack at the book. It was somewhere around 5 AM, and after I wrote down what had come to me, I hit up Twitter to see who else was up and posting. The Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) had this to say: (For those who don’t do graphical …

August 19, 2010 – 5:22 am | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Life of an Artist, My Books, Naked Montreal, Writing Tips | Tagged 5 AM never felt so good, @DalaiLama, Naked Montreal, paying the bills, real work, shakabuku, The Dalai Lama, Tibetan fortune cookie, Twitter, writing tips, You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation. | Comments (2)

Writing tips for n00bs: Get a job!

Back when I was finishing up my writing degree and looking to land a nice “writing job,” I found myself a bit confused about where a writer might seek out these kinds of dream jobs. After all, everyone knows classified ads are dead and Craigslist is full of scammers and spammers. So where do the …

August 6, 2010 – 7:38 am | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Journalism, Work, Writing Tips | Tagged Angela Hoy, AvantGuild, Berkeley School of Journalism, Canadian journalists, classified ads are dead, Craigslist, Craigslist is for scammers, Dow Jones, dream jobs, FFW Small Markets, freelance writing, FundsForWriters.com, get a job, Hope Clark, J-school, JeffGaulin.com, journalism job banks, JournalismJobs.com, legit writing jobs, legitimate writing jobs, MediaBistro.com, New York Times, steer clear of content mills, WritersWeekly.com, writing gigs, writing tips, writing tips for n00bs | Comments (2)

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