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The Month-by-Month NaMoWriMo Calendar

November 8, 2010, by TC No comments yet

Months of the Writer

From the HTMLGiant site.

What if God Texted? (or, OMG the Ten Commandments)

June 8, 2009, by TC 4 comments

The always-interesting McSweeney site (and publication) posted a doozie.

What if God had texted the Ten Commandments?

(Click here to visit the site and see all ten)

The Power of Humor: Are You a Funny Copywriter?

March 14, 2008, by TC 13 comments

Writing funny copy is a skill — an apparently rare one if my eyes don’t deceive me. Still, if you hire one of the funniest people on the planet, then you’re probably gold. Witness the NXTube.com “spoof” blog which engages with readers via humor — and sells golf balls the backwards way.

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  • The New Yorker launching its first ever science fiction Issue (these are a few of my favorite things): http://t.co/OSv3Ohih 3 hrs ago
  • English: "The world's most awesome mess" and "insult to human intelligence." Feel better about being a writer now? http://t.co/pI3KCgpw 3 hrs ago
  • Good interview with brilliant new sci-fi writer Paolo Bacigalupi: http://t.co/jzYm6k12 23 hrs ago
  • Is screenwriting slowly being strangled by the execs who rely on it for their living? http://t.co/p2TpxBFr 1 day ago
  • "Using MS Word for heavy formatting would drive me not only to write science fiction, but to prefer it over reality." http://t.co/Q4y49kh7 1 day ago
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