Pimp My Writing: When Journalists Use Archetypes (Poynter Institute) How two ancient story forms dominate popular and political culture in America -- and what journalists can learn from them. Years ago, I worked with a high school student who had written a story for the school paper about a wheelchair bowling league....more...THE FISHING REPORT (San Francisco Chronicle) Pacific Ocean We keep an old fillet knife on the desk next to the writing machine. Around it are the notes from fishing lives, days and years worth, by order of brightness of paper. The knife spins, rusted but sharp, wooden along the handle, stopping... ...more... Word Processors (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News) Before children began to wander around with iPods plugged into their ears and read fairytales on laptops, they had loved the smell of a new book, of ink drying on pages; they had relished the weight of a tome resting against the elbow. To bring the Paper Age back, Katha Publications had a five-day children's workshop where 10-15-year-olds were given a crash course in publishing - from writing a ......more... Tearing paper (The Hindu) Chennai Paper is an aggregated web of vegetable cellulose fibres usually prepared from wood pulp. The fibres in this planar web are bound ......more... Metso to Deliver LWC Paper Machine to China (PaperAge.com) June 6, 2007 - Metso Paper said that it will supply a lightweight coated (LWC) papermaking line to Henan Puyang Longfeng Paper Co., Ltd. in Puyang city, China's Henan province....more... Bio or term paper? (Rocky Mountain News) Carl Bernstein's much-hyped unauthorized biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, A Woman in Charge, is neither a bomb nor a bombshell as he rehashes everything from Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers to her ill-conceived health-care reform plan and insistence that she have an office in the West Wing....more... Remembering school days (Owen Sound Sun Times) There are two times of year when I think most of school. In those last days of August, when the stores are full of pencils and erasers and fat packages of three-ring paper, I usually buy a notebook just to have that feeling of writing on the very first page....more... MAKING MOVIES: Thousands of writers spending June writing 20,000-word screenplays. It?s not too late to join! (The Kansas City Star) No doubt you?ve been to the movies and, after two hours, said something like, ?I could have done better.?...more... Farm Bill faces September deadline (Herald & Review) WASHINGTON - A critical stage in the process of writing the 2007 Farm Bill continues as Congress resumed session Tuesday after a break for Memorial Day....more... |