writing

So I should switch from beer to sherry to win the Language Award? ;) http://flavorwire.com/193101/weird-writing-habits-of-famous-authors (Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Francine Prose, John Cheever, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner.)

Books only. No short stories, poems, or screenplays. I've got two in the works: The Faerie Preserve, a story about a man whose cat drags home an injured faerie; and Lazarus Flats, a story about an elderly scientist who develops a technique for transferring consciousness to another body, gets...

I love what I do research on (mostly developing new algorithms for challenging problems, especially some in graph theory). I've slowly writing up the results of 25 years of research and wanting to find some interesting ways of sharing it. I've also wanted to write an invitation to math...

Is it possible to write an original story without resorting to archetypes, clichés, stereotypes or literary tropes? Explain...

Help! Any ideas? I write historical fantasy. I know precisely where I need to go with the story, and I'm excited to get there... I just... can't. None of my usual tricks are working. :(

I usually stall a bit, cracking into Page 1 of a screenplay because I never really know if I'm ready. It's been that way for the 3 previous scripts and for this new one too. It's the beginning of a journey, a temporary stepping off into a new world, like taking a cross-USA road trip. You fuss...

Hi everyone - I'm taking a writing class and just did a piece where I was describing someone dying, but I got taken to task because I "didn't look directly at it." The teacher told me to read some other writers that have described people dying to see how they do it. Can anyone think of...

Now, In my spare time, I write. I mostly write thoughts and poetry. The only damage that I manage to inflict on myself is to think I have written something good, only to realise how crap most of what I have ever written has been. How pretentious it is, how banal, and how ultimatly meaningless...

I've just completed my second feature-length screenplay and am now flinging it, and the first script, into the moviemaking machine for considered perusal. Or just to see if anyone even notices them. Odds? No one will. And for all I know - maybe both scripts are appallingly putrid and deserve...

Way cool. http://ideaseek.blogspot.com/2006/07/device-uses-waves-to-print-on-water.html

I'm writing a college-freshman-level, majors general chemistry textbook. I can't go into a lot of detail right now (for contractual reasons), but so far I haven't run into anything that I've wanted to do that have spooked my editor or publisher at all. I want to work skepticism and critical...

What would you use software-wise to do it? What template?

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left). Either she is a genious or we need to work on her before she get's used to it..which is it??

After seeing this post http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1870907809#post1870907809 from Wudang I read the article s/he linked to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4559947.stm I honestly couldn’t believe this article - it is beyond biased - I think...

(Beanbag opens box and starts passing out cigars) Just finished the first draft of my first screenplay. It's an adventure/romance set in a hypothetical South American country, set in contemporary times, weighing in at 123 pages (yeah, it's a little long, but I find it's much easier to trim...

Further to Ian's DVD traumas and Patricio's comment re buggy software, what is the best product? My version of Nero won't copy to DVD, nor will Windows (although I think that's my fault for messing around with it), but two other programs work fine. Any top tips from the ubernerds?

Does the sham never stop? Extra Extra...Gottle o Geer..White House accused of writing Allawi's speech to Congress...Iraq's new leader Allawi shows his glove-puppet qualities. quote: Feinstein Asks Bush About White House Role in Allawi Speech Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush...

The basic message is this: ***Use Campaign Donations for IMMEDIATE Community Improvement Projects*** People give money to you Senator Kerry, because they believe you know what is best to do with it. Well, do you honestly believe that the BEST thing to do with it is to pay for T.V. ads that...

The opening paragraphs of Hemingway's OLD MAN AND THE SEA. Now THAT is good writing.

Has anyone heard about the "Ahora Covenant Inscription"? Apparently it is the oldest example of the oldest form of writing known, located a few years ago near the base of Mt Ararat in Turkey. Can anyone add to this?

I vould like to assemble a bunch of skeptical essays suitable for courses on Critical Thinking that are more user friendly than Shermer's book for undergrads or for HS students. What do you think?

I have currently began writing a speech on Skepticism and Critical Thinking, it is being written for a 4th period Forensics class. To clear up the immediate question that has formed in your head, "Forensics" has nothing to do with dead bodies, instead it is "competitive speech writing and...