Tag: writing
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Daily Prompt #42
Ready for some Thursday Thoughts? Going into spring break, what’s on your mind? Someplace warm? All the weather in California? Is it still snowing at home? Work tomorrow? This is the time to reset before diving back in for the students and teachers among us, but it’s just another week for some others. Resetting Still…
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Daily Prompt #41
Hi all! I hope you are having a wonderfully Wacky Wednesday! Today, we will err on the silly side of the surreal and strange. Have you ever noticed that many fables have a sort of rhythm to them? They roll and undulate–perfect for speaking out loud. One tool that can create that effect is repeating…
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Daily Prompt #40
Welcome back to Tuesday Chooseday! As always, you pick which genre you would like to respond to this prompt with – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, something hybrid and fun – go wild! Revision I’m doing a lot of revising right now, what with it being finals week and all, so revision is on the brain. As…
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Daily Prompt # 39
Happy Fantastic Monday Everyone! As a nod to the in-between space I am occupying right now, part-finals and part-spring break, today’s prompt is about the betweens. The liminal spaces of the world. Threshold For today, write about standing on the threshold of something. Peeking through your wardrobe into your very own Narnia. The big challenge…
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Daily Prompt #38
Welcome to Saturday Workshop! As a refresher, on Saturdays, I invite everyone to turn the comments into a workshop space. Everyone is welcome to post their responses to every prompt, but these Saturday responses are the only ones I can guarantee I’ll respond to. Also! On Saturdays, I include my response to the prompt as…
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Advertising Revenue is Dying
The key findings of a Tow Report written by Elizabeth Anne Watkins say it all, but there is one in particular that gets to the crux of the matter. “The hyperefficient market for programmatic display ads has driven down their prices, reducing revenue for publishers.” This, combined with the way ads impact the user experience, is killing…
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Daily Prompt #37
It’s another Flash Friday! And an especially lovely one at that, considering it marks the end of winter term. For today, we turn back to Burroway’s Imaginative Writing for our prompt. Try This 3.2 “Imagine (remember?) that you have borrowed (“borrowed”?) a car and been involved in a fender bender. Write an explanation for the…
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Daily Prompt #36
Ready to get thoughtful? Thursday Thoughts are here again! As a reminder, Thursday prompts are for nonfiction—flash, poetry, diary entries—anything that’s true and from the real world 🙂 Today we are in for those late-night thoughts. The sad ones, the weird ones, the slightly surreal ones. What do you think about when you are awake…
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Content Matters, So Let’s Change the Structural Convention
“[T]he way we structure content says a lot about the values we share.” One argument I have made for many years is that language matters. In an article for The Think Company, Dave Thomas illustrates clearly why. Using The New York Times as an example, Thomas talks about conventions specifically surrounding gender. If we learn to expect that a woman’s…
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SEO Versus Quality Control: Where is the line between optimization and staying afloat?
In the Boston Globe article Confessions of a professional clickbait writer, Ben Kissam touches on some of the controversy surrounding the different approaches to driving traffic. “I’m not paid to write beautiful prose; I’m paid to grab eyeballs.” The article as a whole has a light, almost sarcastic tone. Kissam seems to both criticize the lack…
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