Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. — Theodore Levitt (quoted in Helene Blowers, “Innovation Starts with ‘I’“)
I revived Twitterprose yesterday, and will try to keep it going for a while.
Twitterprose publishes a line a day (6 a.m. Eastern Time) from the best creative nonfiction. You can follow Twitterprose (at least) [...]
This is about two women, a blog, and a statewide mentoring program.
I recently had to write a midway review for my participation in the 2007-2008 Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute — also known as the “mentoring program.”
Mentors are like favorite aunts. We can hone in on helping our mentees with a focus that isn’t always [...]
(Happen to notice a title change and some editing? I love it when I get something completely wrong, which I did initially in this post, where I confused Peter Suber’s words with those of C. Max Magee, Thorny Technology: Open Access Causes Problems at the Iowa Writers Workshop, The Millions, March 13, 2008. All I [...]
I scribbled ideas for next year’s Creative Nonfiction conference on an evaluation form before heading to L&M for one last meal that had me squealing over the sustainably-farmed locally-made chorizo, but assuming the forensic scientists at CNF gave up trying to analyze my bad handwriting, I thought I’d also share my ideas here.
Again, CNF 2008 [...]
Still careening through homework, but the fire got turned up when I found myself attending the Connecticut Trendspotting forum this Friday to talk about open source. Gotta be done 2NITE! Or 2morrow, at the butt-crack o’ dawn! Hence a lunchtime link-love post…
(Why can’t we give St. Patrick’s a makeover and turn it into “Talk Like [...]
“There is no greater sin in war than ignorance. Never speak or act on anything you aren’t 100 percent sure of, or someone will expose your mistake and take you down for it.”
– ‘Margaret B. Jones’ [Margaret Seltzer], quoted in Michiko Kakutani’s review of Love or Consequences.
I’ve been frantic with post-travel recovery and a huge [...]
(N.b. I have a Flickr set tagged CNF2008, and I also set up a mailing list for anyone interested who attended.)
I’m doing a turn-and-burn — touch down, refuel, take off with afterburners blazing to teach “Writing for the Web” for NEFLIN on Wednesday — but I wanted to share my top ten favorite things [...]
Local eggs
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian
Last week I paid four dollars for a dozen eggs, and that was an insanely good bargain. They weren’t just any old eggs; they were fresh eggs from a local farm, and aside from being almost too unbearably pretty to crack open — they were pastel blue and [...]
The first rule of workshop is, do not cry at workshop.
I ran that tape in my mind over and over again this afternoon while the instructor for my writing workshop carefully, politely explained why my essay didn’t work.
I knew it didn’t work; that’s why I brought it to workshop. It has beautiful language and interesting [...]
Mississippi, that is, for the Mid-South Creative Nonfiction Conference. By all reports a charming town, with a great bookstore and several good restaurants.
This is my first vacation by myself in over fifteen years — since I met Sandy –and it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I now feel a little stressed. [...]
