The St. Joseph County Public Library in Indiana has a innovative new program for children. They run weekly workshops two times a year, where groups of ten read books together and talk about the plot construction. Next, the children collaboratively write a book together to get the feel for it and then attempt to write their own. The weekly sessions for youthful writers are … [Read more...] about Indiana Library Lets Children Write their own Books
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The Distractions of Writing in the Modern World
Writers have a very hard time focusing on pumping out enough content to get their books done and start marketing them. The internet is rife for distractions with instant messaging, popups, emails and our favorite news websites. How can we start to eliminate some of these distractions and make better use of our time? George RR Martin, the author behind the bestselling books … [Read more...] about The Distractions of Writing in the Modern World
Camp NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today
Most authors and even a good number of readers have at least heard of NaNoWriMo--National Novel Writing Month--if not actually participated themselves. Staged each year in November, the high-pressure event has given rise to a number of bestselling books both traditionally and self-published, including titles like Water for Elephants and Hugh Howey's Wool. At last year's event, … [Read more...] about Camp NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today
Why Just Read, When You Can Write with Storybird?
John Biggs for TechCrunch posted an interesting company profile yesterday of children's ebook developer Storybird. In the piece, Biggs detailed how the business model behind Storybird works, allowing free or premium members to build and share their own ebooks out of the on-screen point and click and the provided illustrations and graphics. While the piece demonstrated that this … [Read more...] about Why Just Read, When You Can Write with Storybird?
NoteSlate website with all the details launched
The NoteSlate is all set to break into the retail scene soon as a cheap reusable alternative to real paper notebook. NoteSlate has recently added further details on the note-taking tablet via their official website. The NeoSlate tablet is all set to be available from June onwards at an almost unbelieveble price of just $99. The company is working hard to make sure the tablet … [Read more...] about NoteSlate website with all the details launched