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AI adoption in newsrooms presents “a familiar power imbalance” between publishers and platformsFrom Nieman Lab: Uncertainty in the news industry, hype around AI, and hope for better business models and new revenue streams have all...
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The Gettysburg AddressFrom Abraham Lincoln Online: On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner referred to the most famous speech ever given by President Abraham...
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AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.From The Wall Street Journal: Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming...
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A Handy Trick for Brainstorming Your PlotFrom Writers in the Storm: You don ’t have to know everything about your story before you start plotting. Since writing is fairly...
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Thomas Hardy’s Life of DesireFrom The New Statesman: “She was no longer a milkmaid, but the visionary essence of woman,” Hardy says of his most famous creation, Tess...
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Fairness: the hidden currency of the workplaceNot exactly about writing, but possibly a good writing prompt. And a very effective use of video. From The Economist: S ome videos...
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She’s the Queen of Football Romance. (No, It’s Not Taylor Swift.)From The Wall Street Journal: The queen of the football romance is not Taylor Swift. It’s Susan Elizabeth Phillips . Phillips, whose...
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How to Develop Your Unique Writing StyleFrom C.S. Lakin: When tackling the art of fiction writing, it’s common to immerse yourself in the fundamentals: plot, structure,...
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I like being present in spacesI like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you’re racist or sexist or...
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Sister-in-law’s letters provide insights into Charles Dickens’ life and legacyFrom The Guardian: A collection of letters from one of Charles Dickens’ most valued confidantes will go on display in London for the first...
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New York governor pushes for reading education overhaul as test scores lagFrom The Independent: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday said she will push for schools to reemphasize phonics in literacy education...
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The Thing About Self-Promotion is That Self-Promotion Sucks (But You Have to Do It Anyway)From Nathan Bransford: Here’s the thing about self-promotion: It sucks. It really sucks. If self-promotion were an insect, I would...
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DysphemismNowhere are they more common than in the argot of the greasy spoon (a dysphemism for the word “diner”), immortalized in the 1941...
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Meet Your New Robot Co-WriterFrom Esquire: Some art forms welcome, even require, collaboration. After all, it is the exceptionally rare film or television show that gets...
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If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Try a DysphemismFrom The Wall Street Journal: Dysphemism is a useful word. It’s the reverse of euphemism. H.W. Fowler’s brief entry on euphemism in his...
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Reading is so sexyFrom The Guardian: They have killed skinny jeans and continue to shame millennials for having side partings in their hair. They think using...
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How the ghostwriter of Biden’s memoirs ended up in the center of a classified documents probeFrom The Associated Press: President Joe Biden worked so closely with the ghostwriter with whom he is accused of sharing classified secrets...
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Cheers in Czechia for the End of VAT on BooksFrom Publishing Perspectives: Czech book industry representatives say they hope that after a challenging 2022, the introduction of a...
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PakistanCreator: Jeremy Weate CC BY 2.0 DEED no changes Wikimedia Commons From The Economist: The Pashtun Question:...
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7 Texas Novels About Mother-Daughter RelationshipsFrom Electric Lit: I’m going to admit something to all y’all: the best thing that has ever happened to me—becoming a mother—is also the...
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Sales Predictions for Ebooks vs. Traditional Books Over the Next Ten YearsPrompt: describe the future sales picture over the next ten years for ebooks vs. traditional books printed on paper ChatGPT4 :...
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I do write by handI do write by hand. I just think – I don’t know, it’s a physical thing for me. It’s a bodily thing. It literally has to...
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But wherever they goBut wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will...
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8 Stories About Cultural Alienation and the Search for BelongingFrom Electric Lit: Cultural alienation is the feeling of being disconnected or estranged from one’s own culture or the culture in which one...
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Release the ghostsFrom The Bookseller: When I worked at a library as a teenager, one of my duties was to unbox and process newly released novels, and I noticed...
