Writing about writing—by the Write Source staff

Rob King is the Editor in Chief at Sebranek, Inc., parent company of Write Source. He has 21 years of experience in the publishing industry, performing the primary edit on more than 100 nonfiction texts and 50 fiction titles. As a writer, he has contributed more than a thousand pages of instructional material to numerous projects and has published 20 novels, 4 novellas, 26 short stories, and 62 prose poems. In 1995, Rob founded the Alliterates, a group of fiction writers and poets who meet once a month to discuss writing. Rob has also taught two semesters of creative writing at Karcher Middle School in Burlington, Wisconsin.

Stoopid is as Stoopid Does

The cover for the most recent edition of The Atlantic asks provocatively, “Is Google making us Stoopid?” In his article within, Nicholas Carr laments that his Internet addiction has shortened his attention span, scattered his focus, made his thinking shallower, and left him less capable of slogging through War and Peace.

Hmm. Sounds like he’s come down to my level.
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