Part of my job here at Sebranek Inc. is to stay abreast of ongoing technology issues as they relate to writing. That means, among other things, having a Twitter account and following people like Tim O’Reilly (of tech publishing giant O’Reilly Media). Today, Tim reTweeted the following post by Lewis Shepherd (CTO of Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments): (more…)
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On Tuesday, shortly after President Obama’s inaugural address, Lynn Gaertner-Johnston posted “Deconstructing the Inaugural Address” from a business-writer’s standpoint. She has some great things to say about the power of practical language.
On Wednesday, Al Tompkins posted “What Inaugural Speeches Can Teach Writers,” from a journalist’s standpoint. He compares the speech section by section with pieces from Lincoln and Kennedy, to demonstrate it’s overall rhetorical strategy. (more…)
Reading “Teacher Leader Resolutions for 2009” (Teacher Leaders Network 1/7/09) prompted me to create my own wish list for the upcoming year. My list focuses on what I’d like to see students accomplishing in the writing classroom. (more…)
“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
—Anatole France
Creativity is the metaphoric power of a nine-year-old who calls her unkempt Shih Tzu a “dirty ol’ dust mop.” It’s the vision of a photographer who sees Easter Island sculptures in a series of back-alley shadows. And it is the inventiveness of a gardener who feels the stirrings of a story after digging up an arrowhead.
In Writers INC (third edition), writer Randall VanderMey captures the essence of creativity in the following scenarios:
Where dull thinking (DT) plucks a sandbur off his socks and throws it away, creative thinking (CT) invents Velcro. DT stays angry after having his iPod ripped off. CT wins $100 in a literary contest with a story told from the point of view of the thief.