It’s time for me to start kicking my own ass. Therefore, I’ve decided to post my mid-year resolutions so that nonpretentious readers can call me out if I start to fail. Please feel free to add to my list if you think there’s something that I need to change. In addition, please feel free...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Writing ’
Mid-Year Resolutions
More Than a Pen, Tools for Creative Professionals
In today’s world, being a professional writer (usually) takes more than simply applying pen (or pencil) to paper. There are notebooks, netbooks, pens, digital pens, Microsoft Office, Google Documents, and Mac (Keynote/Pages). And, those are only the start of the tools you may need to prove yourself in this profession. At its heart, http://nonpretentious.com...
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Act II: Postcards, Maps, & Storytelling
Upon first glance, it’s hard not to compare Jenny Deller to Al Gore. (Although, let’s face it, Jenny Deller is much better looking.) In Future Weather, Jenny’s first feature film, the main character finds the effects of global warming so terrifying that she sets out to try to stop it. Moreover, like Vice President...
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Borrowing a Free Lunch
With Michael Jackson’s death, Perez Hilton’s reporting of Michael Jackson’s death, and reporting on Twitter’s reporting of Michael Jackson’s death, it’s hard to think that anything else went on in the world this week. Die hard cultural connoisseurs may have caught glimpse that Farrah Fawcett also passed away, the NBA draft occurred, the Supreme...
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For Voyeurs & Readers, With Love.
Have you ever read someone else’s diary? Do you peruse PostSecret or the rants and raves on Craigslist? Did you like The Jolly Postman series or The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy? Are you a bibliophile? If you answer “yes” to any of the questions above, I highly recommend taking one to two hours to...
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Quick Brown Fox, Visual Alphabet
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet! Wow. It’s really funny. If you have a blackberry and you try to change your font the sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” previews that font. I always thought that was so weird....
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Tittle Your Is, Cross Your Ts
Useless knowledge of the day (UK of the day – catchy right?): The dot over the I is called the “tittle.” Okay…since it’s the first UK of the day i’ll give another one.. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Dirty Laundry
It’s always fun to go through… Saturday, September 04, 2004 An Open Letter to a boy in my creative writing class: Your story, you know the one about the two in love in India, that one was good. I remember that one. I also remember you have a yellow jumpsuit and wanted to wear...
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Letters to Inspiring Writers: Dear Alastair Harper
From: <revisingproust@nonpretentious.com> Sent: Mon Oct 13 XX:XX To: Alastair Harper Priority: Normal Subject: A Fan’s Evaluation Type: HTML Msg Dear Alastair: I’m not a psychiatrist so don’t assume anything that I write below has any scientific basis or medical value. However, I’ve read _Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You_ (or at least half...
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Good v. Well May Irk Me but I ain’t No Grammar Girl
Those near & dear to my heart hate me for correcting their “I’m doing good” or “I think I did good on my test.” Eeeeeeeeeek. That way of speaking is as melodic as nails scratching down a blackboard. Contrary to popular opinion, however, I am not a pro when it comes to grammar (cf....
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