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When you think about children’s games, what comes to mind? Nintendo Wii or Game Boy? World of Warcraft or Battleship? But what about backyard games like ‘kick the can’ or ‘ghosts in the graveyard’? Shouldn’t these be included too? For Marlene Byrne, a children’s author and mother of two from Chicago’s Edgebrook neighborhood, the answer is YES, they should. For the first time at Laura Reviews, I’m happy to feature a children’s book author and share our conversation about the creation of Project Play . Byrne is determined to bring back classic backyard games, a tradition she believes teaches children valuable skills like creativity ... Read Full Story
 
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Finding the right article spinner software reviews can be a difficult process, you would think it would be easy because there are so many, but it isn’t precisely because of this.  It is difficult because almost all article spinner software is paid and there isn’t any way of figuring out whether it is a good program withouth paying first. Most of these article spinning software companies don’t offer any trials and require the money up front, and when you try to find out something about the product from reviews, you come to find out that the reviews are written by the company itself. A ... Read Full Story
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In the spirit of including all types of authors and artists who have changed the world of words, I'm excited to launch the inaugural edition of Interviews with Awesome Musicians , featuring award winning singer and songwriter Dayna Malow . With a long career as a musician, Dayna has produced three fantastic albums: "Anywhere But Here, "Tangled Up in You," and recently released "What's the Worst That Could Happen." She regularly performs throughout the Midwest and also has opened for numerous artists, including Billy Ray Cyrus and The Doobie Brothers. A little known fact is that Dayna is my former singing coach. Which means ... Read Full Story
 
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. -Vonnegut Photo by Lauren Baker I’ve done a great deal of thinking on this very subject over the past few weeks, and that mental wrangling was one of the reasons why I ended up taking a small publishing vacation recently. Of all the rules Mr. Vonnegut has provided so far, this one shows the highest level of information crammed into a relatively small space. It makes me think that if Kurt had gotten into Twitter, he would have done ... Read Full Story
An excerpt from the full review: “Unpublished is not a word we identify with a Kurt Vonnegut short story,” Sidney Offit notes in his foreword to “Look at the Birdie,” a new collection of Vonnegut’s early, and unpublished, short fiction. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries of similar stature, Vonnegut was until early middle age a practical and adaptable writer, a guy who knew how to survive on his fiction. In the era of the “slicks...  
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I have always loved the hilarious, classic Kurt Vonnegut essay about writing conferences Teaching the Unteachable. It contains one of my favorite Vonnegut quotes, which I have paraphrased for years: "The idea of a conference for prose writes is an absurdity. They don't confer, can't confer. It's all they can do to drag themselves past one another like great, wounded bears." Every time someone new to writing asks me if I recommend this...  
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Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing short stories. With a few modifications, they also serve as a nice set of rules for makers of animated shorts. In particular, a lot of people would benefit from following his first one: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will [...]  
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Cribbed from Kurt Vonnegut's Wikipedia entry: In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every...  
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One of Kurt Vonnegut's eight rules for writing short stories: 7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. Ayup. See also How to Write With Style. Tags: how to   kurtvonnegut   writing  
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBooks: 'Look at the Birdie' by Kurt Vonnegut, and 'Kurt Vonnegut's America'The Star-Ledger - NJ.com... “Player Piano” to “Sirens of Titan” to “Mother Night.” I've reread them all now, except “Bluebeard.” Betsy Willeford is a freelance writer living in Miami.and more »  
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