Charlotte Perkins Gilman Dies by Suicide
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
The Data-Backed Case for Ditching Adverbs
Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Data analysis proved that Stephen King was right. The best writing has few adverbs.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 6 min
Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud
What makes writers commit literary fraud? The Education of Little Tree, A Million Little Pieces, Misha, Angel at the Fence are all hoaxes.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 4 min
4 Conundrums from Doris Lessings' Novel Lecture
Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 13, 2020
- 3 min
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
Brilliant Maps delivers a zinger to your mind in the form of infographic-maps. Easy to see and quick to decipher in bold, boisterous color.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
4 Unexpected Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
How a Woman of No Importance Won a War and Changed the World
The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
Guaranteed Good Reads for the Rest of the Year
We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 8, 2020
- 4 min
5 Time Zones of Productive Writers
Writers experience time differently than others. Here's how to make the most of the 5 time zones of productive writers.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 8, 2020
- 5 min
The Great Poet Ern Malley (Who Never Existed)
Ern Malley's poetry was an elaborate hoax, but because of an editor's backing. Malley's work gained acclaim.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 7, 2020
- 5 min
What Writers Need to Know About Readability
Copywriters are instructed to write at the sixth grade level. Short, simple, and - well - dumber. Even fiction is simpler than before.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 7, 2020
- 5 min
It’s Not Magic! Good Writing is the Result of Training
Award-winning, note-worthy writers train daily, love language, and have the persistence to keep going even in the face of rejection.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
Everyone Dies Famous
Len Joy's Everyone Dies Famous draws on the cherished tradition of small-town literature where lives overlap, circle, and collide daily.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
Focus on the Fun to Win the Writing Race
Writers shouldn't forget the fun factor. When the act of writing doesn’t make them happy, it’s impossible to be successful.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
5 Fascinating Facts About Books That Will Surprise and Delight You
Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt is crammed with hundreds of fascinating facts about reading and writing. Here are five.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 23, 2020
- 6 min
How Compassionate Problem-Solving Leads To Profit-Building
Richard Drew's compassionate problem-solving was at the crux of innovation, not the amount of time he spent working on it.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 23, 2020
- 4 min
If Bestselling Authors Do It, Shouldn't You?
The semicolon doesn't work for copywriting, but it's a light-saber for word-warriors in essays, articles, and story-telling.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 23, 2020
- 3 min
Why Rising to a Challenge Makes You More Creative
Rising to a challenge, stimulates ideas, strengthens creative muscle, and gives you repeatable, significant results.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 23, 2020
- 6 min
Can You Help the Madwoman In the Asylum?
Alex Michaelides relies on the long-standing tradition of female insanity in fiction in his suspense novel, The Silent Patient.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 12, 2020
- 4 min
The 4 Strategies That Launched the Bikini to the Top
The bikini has been popular for 74 years, due to 4 brilliant marketing strategies. You can use these to make your product an iconic success.
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