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• 14/08/2017in Writing & Editing Resources

  Eudora Welty, Writer and Photographer, Shaped by Depression-Era Experiences and Her Native Mississippi

  Eudora Welty inherited her love of literature from her mother and her love of photography from her father, who helped establish the first camera store in her home town of Jackson, Mississippi. Her mother, as related in the author’s memoir, even endangered her life during a house fire to save a collection of novels by...
• 07/08/2017in Writing & Editing Resources

  Why the Nobel Committee Recognized Tagore and Dylan for the Literary Worth of Their Song Lyrics

  Surprise was the most common reaction when the 1913 and 2016 Nobel Prizes were awarded for literature. In 1913, a virtual unknown outside India, and in 2016, a world-famous celebrated songwriter, elicited the same reaction. Why? Rabindranath Tagore was recognized for his first work translated in English: a songbook aptly titled “Geetanjali.” Then i...
• 31/07/2017in Writing & Editing Resources

  How Copyeditors Can Keep Up with Changing Style and Grammar Rules

  Copyeditors face unique challenges when working with multiple clients and writers. Primarily, everyone has their own idea of what is right and acceptable, and clients will vary on what they expect in any given piece of work. Rules also tend to change with the times as traditional writing forms make way for modern artistic freedom...
• 24/07/2017in Writing & Editing Resources

  Support Your Writing with the Right Creative Space

  Writers may at times find themselves stuck for a new angle on an existing project or at a loss for new topics to explore. When this happens, writing becomes frustrating, and that puts a damper on creating new material. If you are a writer, consider how your immediate surroundings affect you. Do the “same four...
• 17/07/2017in Writing & Editing Resources

  How Flash Fiction Took Over the Internet

  Flash fiction, or extremely brief works of fiction, has exploded in popularity over the past few years but has been around longer than many realize. In America, one can find examples of such micro-storytelling as early as the 1800s from authors including Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman. The popular magazine Cosmopolitan popularized these short forms...