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Take A Walk. Your Writing Depends on It. - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. April 28, 2014. Take A Walk. Your Writing Depends on It. Writers have known for years how important walking is to fostering the creative process. Now science backs it up. On those days when my writing isn’t coming to me (like today, to be honest) I take a long walk. Sometimes I go on a run. During that walk ( or run. I think through the problems I’m having and figure out why I’m stuck. The research comprised four experiments involving 176 college students and ...
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Are Pen Names Worth It? (Episode 25) - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. November 20, 2014. Are Pen Names Worth It? Special note: This is our last episode for 2014, but we’ll be back in January with even better topics, so keep listening! Kevin is taking time off in November and December to figure out fatherhood. He is expecting his first son sometime in November. For now, enjoy the show! Today, we are talking about pseudonyms. Do writers need them? Are there ever times when we need to hide behind a pseudonym or publish anonymously?
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Digitally Composed, Consumed, and Critiqued (Episode 21) - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. September 18, 2014. Digitally Composed, Consumed, and Critiqued (Episode 21). We live in a digital world, and that means writers need to develop their readership online. Luckily, the tools available to do that continue to improve. Tomorrow’s Best-Selling Novels Will Use This 19th-Century Trick. By Clive Thompson in. Excellent place to get your work out there. An example of a Wattpad novel. Web Fiction, Serialized and Social in. The New York Times. Is a freelan...
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Evernote for Reading and Writing (Episode 19)
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. August 17, 2014. Evernote for Reading and Writing (Episode 19). How do you organize your reading life? Today, we’re talking about how to use Evernote for writing and organization. Both Jason and Kevin use Evernote to write notes, keep lists, organize daily writing, and keep track of our digital books. You can even use evernote to organize your ebook reading notes as well. Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly. Are two books that will get you started with Evernote.
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What we gain and lose in the future of reading - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. February 6, 2013. What we gain and lose in the future of reading. 8220;Digital Reading” flickr user jose.jhg. Some interesting thoughts from writer Baratunde Thurston. About the future of books and reading. Writing about what is lost versus what is gained in the switch to e-books, Thurston has this thought:. What if you could download books that had been pre-annotated? I would pay extra to read. With commentary by Paul Krugman,. The New Jim Crow. When we link ...
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The Late Bloomers (Episode 22) - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. October 23, 2014. The Late Bloomers (Episode 22). What happens if you peak late in life? Today, we’re talking about those late bloomers, the writers and innovators who gain notoreity after years of hard work. Did you know Charles Bukowski wasn’t published until he was 51, or that Walt Whitman self-published the first edition of. Today, we seem obsessed with young genius, but we still see cases of people publishing and gaining success later in life. Http:/ crit...
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Writing in the Margins (Episode 20) - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. September 9, 2014. Writing in the Margins (Episode 20). In today’s show, we explore the promise of digital marginalia. Remember when you were a kid and teachers told you not to mark up your textbooks? And then you got to college, and teachers told you you had to mark up your books? Kevin’s thoughts on marginalia: What we gain and lose in the future of reading. His essay on defending digital marginalia: ‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’.
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How to make friends and enjoy your social life as a digital nomad – A Location-Flexible Life
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Working online, living in multiple locations. How to make friends and enjoy your social life as a digital nomad. December 1, 2014. December 2, 2014. My friend David with his daughter, Sonja. Hanging out with them in Portland. When I tell people about my life as a digital nomad, questions I often hear are, don’t you get lonely? 8221; and “How do you stand going to a place where you don’t know anyone? Here’s how it works. I’ll also discuss:. Friends of close friends. Friends of Facebook friends. My good fr...
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apps | jasonandthebeast
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Jason Braun’s blog of making text, apps, music, and other things. jason.lee.braun@gmail.com 314-614-3717. 3 New Apps That Writers and Teachers Need Now. I just wrote a post for Critical Margins about three apps that can make you a better, faster, and stronger writer. If you’re interest, you know what to do. February 17, 2014 Categories: apps. Four-Minute Response to the Question How Do You Get Published? If you are convinced, then go do it now! Kevin Eagan at http:/ kevinthomaseagan.com/. I’m talki...
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Why Marginalia? - Critical Margins
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A passion for words, on screen and on paper. May 24, 2012. David Foster Wallace’s marginalia Source: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. Today, I’d like to pose a simple question, and give my opinion on something that I’ve struggled with as a reader for a while now: why write in the margins? Why do many readers mark up, star, or pose questions to authors while reading? I’ve written about this topic before. And on one level, understanding marginalia is the reason I started this blog. Dancing in the ...
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