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Writing Assignment: Love It Or Hate It

09.16.2011 Writing Assignments

Expressing a strong opinion well is one of the most difficult things a writer can do. Initial reactions can be powerful, visceral, and difficult to translate into cool, evidence-based logical discourse. That’s not to say that opinions and reactions have to be logical or cool. But to put your reaction and thoughts in writing, to [...]

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The Play’s The Thing

03.15.2011 The life of the mind

My recent trip to see one of my plays produced brought the value of live theater right back to the forefront of my thinking. I’m a bit of a radical when it comes to theater history and philosophy. I don’t think that theater is a sophisticated development of advanced civilizations and societies. I believe that [...]

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Writing Assignment: Tweet A Movie Review

10.08.2010 Movies

If your goal is to become a better writer, you need to practice. Here’s your writing assignment for today: review a movie in 140 characters. The movie review is a well-established writing form, but one that often seems to produce reviews that run longer than the movie itself. There are those who use the opportunity to [...]

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Cultivate Connoisseurship

08.11.2010 Art

Do you feel like you’re always behind with EVERYTHING? Do you find that you can never get through your list of tasks, and worse than that, all of those other things in life keep nagging at you? Do you feel like you’re under pressure because your TiVO or DVR is full of recorded shows that [...]

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3DTV Takes Over? Not Quite Yet

07.07.2010 Future

Sometimes I see press releases and pronouncements that make such ridiculous claims that I have to stop and think about what they’re saying. This one claims that by 2013 that a full 86% of Plasma TVs will be 3D versions. On closer thought, they may be right, but it probably doesn’t mean what you might [...]

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