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Writers Write about Their Rooms

The Smart Chick — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:37:02 +0000

Is it important to have a special place to write? Just a corner of a table or do we need an entire room? Do we or can we share that room? Read “The Writer’s Room” here.

The Smart Chick shares her office (aka writing room) with a philosopher, who happens to be her husband. Working out fine so far, although both are easily distracted!

A Slate Article about Eggheads!

The Smart Chick — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:40:22 +0000

“Adlai Stevenson, the Illinois governor and 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee was probably the most famous egghead of his time. A Unitarian (of course!), Stevenson would write and rewrite (and rewrite) his speeches. He bought half-hour blocks of television airtime, thinking that he’d use it to explain complicated issues to the public. In competition with the avuncular Eisenhower, a plain-spoken war hero, Stevenson lost—twice. (Stevenson had a sense of humor about his image. He once replied, when asked about being an intellectual in politics: ‘Via ovicapitum dura est’—’The way of the egghead is hard.’)”

Yup, it’s HARD all right . . . HARD BOILED! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Cluck, cluck,

The Smart Chick

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/04/aaron_lecklider_s_inventing_the_egghead_reviewed.html

How to Publish Your Book

The Smart Chick — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:59:57 +0000

We really like this graphic from Visual.ly!

Vigilante Copy Editing

The Smart Chick — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:52:07 +0000

What’s Hatching: News on words and language . . .

We absolutely love this story from the New York Times:

Vigilante Copy Editor

The Smart Chick swears it isn’t she, but it could be! She has been known to perform what she calls “public good editing” like this vigilante. Why not? Is it, in fact, graffiti? Or is it just a small way of improving the world? If such errors happen in a school setting—particularly on the part of teachers or administrators—don’t we want to repair them so that impressionable children don’t witness such enormities?