Deborah

Ever wish you could live inside a book? Well, you can't quite live in Dutch artist Frank Halmans's stacked vintage book houses, but you can tell he's had the same idea. The works in Halmans's series Built of Books, which we ...

Slate Magazine
The Book-Writing Machine
Slate Magazine
Today, of course, many—surely most—fiction writers work with computers, laptops, and word processors just like the rest of us.

When Authors Should Tell Lies. Readers often like their historical fiction to be factual, and they expect authors to be as accurate as possible. The more true-to-life a novel is, the greater their appreciation of it.

Productivity is something many freelance writers struggle with. Ever get to the end of a working day and look back over the day saying “Gee, it sure felt like I was busy today, but I really didn't get much writing done”?

National Zoo's Clouded Leopard Babies: Two Cubs Born At Smithsonian ...

One of the most important things all writers need to remember is that you should never stop learning and honing your craft. In order to know how to be a better writer, you need to keep studying and learning.

52 books, 52 weeks, Week 7: The Ugly Cry Huffington Post The Fault in Our Stars is about a sixteen-year-old terminal cancer patient named Hazel, her obsession with a book called An Imperial Affliction, written by a Salinger-like author named Peter...

Great comedians make their living by seeing the world in a fresh way and creating high-value product to match. Could your team learn from that? (Looking for some tips on how to foster #creativity in the #workplace?

Chicago Tribune
DNA testing helps with family histories
Chicago Tribune
Genealogy hobbyists liken the quest to track their family tree to a scavenger hunt, laden with clues, surprises and dead ends.

Mummies are everywhere -- not just Egyptian tombs and Hollywood movie sets, but in almost every part of the world. China, Peru, Chile, the Canary Islands, the preserved, unwalking dead populate history.

They say writing is a form of self-expression — but it's not the only one. And if we had to guess, we'd bet that many of our favorite authors have a little bit more going on in their heads than the average person, so it makes sense ...

Paper Books in a Digital World
Huffington Post
In the 1400s, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, instantly revolutionizing the world of books, words, and literature.

Why Five Days in the Office Is Too Many New York Times When I heard last week that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, was banning its employees from working at home, my first thought was, “I'm glad I don't work at Yahoo.” But I also understood...

FRANCE 24 World biology team returns with haul of Papuan species FRANCE 24 AFP - An international consortium of scientists said on Wednesday they had collected 1.5 million specimens of wildlife in an unprecedented mission to document the biological...

Globe and Mail Authors push science beyond the lab into fiction and fantasy Globe and Mail “Female writers seem to use characters or social concepts as the foundation to their stories and then build worlds around them, whereas male writers tend to...

Forbes
4 Reasons Marissa Mayer's No-At-Home-Work Policy Is an Epic Fail
Forbes
According to Reses, “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home.” The forwarded memo — labeled “YAHOO!

VentureBeat
Work from home no more: How do you feel about Yahoo's crackdown?

Take writing, for instance. With the Internet, there are a lot of new openings for writers especially with blog writing as well as for those who would like to self publish books. The usual writer who was a 9 to 5 job would probably ...

On Orwell's Rules for Writing
The Reality-Based Community
I'm a fan of George Orwell. I think one of the most important pieces of writing in the English language, for example, is his set of rules for how to make the perfect cup of tea.