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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
(applies very nicely to writing as well)
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton, 'No Man Is an Island'
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Billy the Blogging Poet will be opening up nominations for this years Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere on April 1, 2008!
Stop by his place for the rules and a list of past winners and sundry bits of information related to the high office in the blogosphere.
P.S. Billy also has ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Write to Done has an excellent post up on the subject of research: Research Sources for Writers: A Guide to Backing up Your Words.
I am particularly interested in the references and information on “Open Access” journals.
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
For those of you who spend many hours filling out all those three-by-five index cards when doing any sort of research it's time for you to download Zotero. It's a Firefox add-on that allows you to cite your references on the fly from most websites in many cases, automatically (here ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
The best advice I've found of late for those frequent times when one is staring at a blank computer screen or the pristine white of a piece of paper.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: let that first sentence be as stupid ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
This link was emailed to me this morning. Professor Pausch puts “life” into perspective (and manages to make those rejection slips seem not as important). Note the whole lecture is almost 90 minutes but worth the viewing.
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