Old typewriters as mechanical art
The Copywriter Underground has a great post about how clunky manual typewriters have undergone a transformation.
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The Copywriter Underground has a great post about how clunky manual typewriters have undergone a transformation.
Only a couple of days left for you to sign up for Script Frenzy. From the site’s About page: Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April. As part of a donation-funded nonprofit, . . .
7 more days until I pick up my iPad. Thanks to Susan Pigott for pointing out this gorgeous Vaja cases for the iPad. I especially love the one that looks like a Moleskine. To avoid overloading those of you who aren’t iPad fans, I’ve been pouring most of my iPad obsessings into . . .
For those who enjoy comics focused on the writing life: check out Wayne Pollard’s Bo’s Cafe Life, which follows the adventures of Bo, an aspiring novelist. Thanks to Wayne for giving me permission to post the comic above!
The members of Tiger Beat(I remember reading Tiger Beat magazine when I was a teen!) are all YA (Young Adult) authors, and they apparently rocked the house at Books of Wonder during a Sourcebooks launch party. From Mediabistro: Libba Bray wailed on vocals, Daniel Ehrenhaft played guitar, Natalie Standiford played bass, and Barney Miller handled drums. The band headlined the . . .
Thanks to Profwriting.com for making Inkygirl their Blog Of The Week. 🙂 You can follow Profwriting on Twitter.
Thanks so much to Anita Nolan for giving me the Lovely Blog Award! If you write for young people and aren’t familiar with Anita’s blog, you should definitely visit her website. Here’s my list of blogs that I check regularly because of their excellent info and inspiration. I’ve tried to avoid blogs that . . .
I’m a big fan of lists, and have been experimenting with various To Do list systems for quite a few years. Recently I’ve been using Culturedcode’s Things, which syncs between a desktop version and my iPhone. While I like Things, in the past year I’ve found myself relying more on a . . .
Last month, I posted a review of Black Mana Studio’s Manuscript app for the iPhone, saying it was a disappointment. The developer has released an update which appears to fix the import and export issues from an to Google Docs. I’ve only had a chance to do some preliminary testing, but so . . .
THE SILVER ANKLET is a sequel to Mahtab Narsimhan‘s THE THIRD EYE, which won The Silver Birch award in 2009. For those who don’t know, The Silver Birch Award is a province-wide honour given by Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6 Ontario students. Although administered by the Ontario Library Association and run by teacher-librarians and . . .