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Waterproof Notepad Helps You Record Ideas in the Shower
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsSome people do their best scrubbing in the shower; others do their best thinking. Just ask Mark Knudsen, a Michigan-based, self-professed "shower thinker" with a penchant for coming up with great ideas while showering. A couple of years ago, Knudsen's watery brainstorming habit led to something big: the invention of a simple little novelty that helps shower thinkers like himself record their every thought mid-cleansing. After a "splash" of genius in his very own shower, Knudsen created "AquaNotes," a nontoxic, recyclable, waterproof notepad designed to withstand exposure to ...
Opinion: New Orleans Has All the Write Stuff
By Shari J. Stauch - AOL News(Aug. 28) -- When disaster strikes, writers write. That's no secret. But a well-kept secret, at least outside the writing community, is why so many writers continue to be compelled to pen their observations of New Orleans, even five years after that massive disaster labeled Katrina. First, it's important to understand that New Orleans has been to writers what heroin is to a junkie: an ultimate high, sensory overload to the nth degree. Itinerants on Jackson Square, tarot-reading under candlelight, juxtaposed against the blinding excess of the Garden District. The sounds of local accents -- ...
'I Write Like' Website Boosts and Bruises Writers' Egos
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(July 19) -- The new website and meme of the moment, "I Write Like," is alternately inflating and bruising the egos of writers everywhere -- and all it takes is a single click. With a simple copy and paste, "I Write Like" analyzes your prose, be it from "your latest blog post, journal entry, comment" or "chapter of your unfinished book." After combing through a submitter's writing style -- including sentence length and punctuation -- "I Write Like" spits out its computer-programmed determination of which of the 50 famous authors in its database you "write like." Like the double rainbow ...
Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySpeaking of cons...Having just taken on the happiness industry, I thought I would follow up by taking on the writing industry. Or, more precisely, the writer factory.Even graduates of bartending schools have some sort of employment on the horizon. But that just goes to show you the sheer genius of the literary-industrial complex. The available jobs after graduation are nothing more than a mirage, and even though everyone knows it, people still fork over millions of dollars.I should point out that there are at least two kinds of writer cons. First, there's the writing equivalent to the ads we ...
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