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- Writing a column can help clear the mind (Herald & Review)
Someone recently asked me why I write a weekly column. It’s a good question and one I think was motivated by someone wanting to know about the mechanics and rationale of writing rather than to question why the Herald & Review wastes space each week publishing 600 or so of my words.- Johnston, in IC for writing festival, pushes the writing muscle (The Daily Iowan)
"Sorry. I'm not wearing professor clothes," says Bret Anthony Johnston. He's wearing a baseball cap and a Star Wars T-shirt. When Johnston visited Iowa early last spring, the Harvard professor wore a checkered blazer. Then, he was a candidate for the new director of Undergraduate Creative Writing (a position he ultimately didn't end up taking), but this week, his return to Iowa City is to ...- Enter Acorn writing contest (The Acorn)
If you think you have a knack for writing, put your creative juices to work this summer in The Acorn contest, "Fiction in a Nutshell." Here's how it works: In 100 words or less, write a fiction story and e-mail it to newstip@theacorn.com. You may also send it by mail to the address on page 4A. Include your name, address, age and phone number.- Local student wins Disney writing contest | www.ToAcorn.com | Thousand Oaks Acorn (The Thousand Oaks Acorn)
Despite writing her entry at the last minute, a local student was one of two winners in a major writing contest put on by Disney.- "Two years ago, the number of developers writing applications for the Microsoft Windows platform fell, while the ... (OS News)
. Instead of the Web stealing away Windows Users, as people have predicted for years, it's Linux and handheld devices. According to analysts at the Evans Data Corporation research house, 64.8 percent of North American developers are writing software for Windows, down from 74 percent only a year ago.- Writing, sharing helped me 'find myself' (The Chelsea Standard)
Not a week goes by that I don't receive e-mail and phone calls from people thanking me for writing my column. Both male and female readers stop me on the street or in stores just to talk about cancer when they realize I am the face behind the column.- Submission writing workshop (Forbes Advocate)
Forbes Shire Council, in conjunction with Forbes Business Chamber, is holding a Grant Submission Writing Workshop next week and all local community organisations are invited to attend.- Teachers become students at local writing program (NWAnews.com)
A dozen area teachers visited the University of Arkansas this summer to learn how to be better writers. (Northwest Arkansas Times)- Author Galanes finds writing a form of therapy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Some people turn to a therapist to sort out their problems, others talk to friends, but New York lawyer Philip Galanes found the best way to resolve issues in his life was to write a novel about them.- Life Story Writing Class (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
LIFE STORY WRITING CLASS starting October 10 at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Library & Archives in partnership with Westside Education & Career Center (LAUSD). Wednesdays, from 2—4:30 p.m. Class is FREE. Record your special memories and family history as a precious gift to yourself and future generations.
