MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. In this edition, we meet Per Gessle, one half of Sweden’s second most successful band of all time, Roxette, and the writer behind all their biggest hits. World’s Greatest Songwriters is supported by AMRA – the global digital music collection society […]
Exciting news! Since her time on Bachelor Nation shows, former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay has become an extremely successful television and podcast host, and even wrote her own book. Her first book was a collection of essays about her life titled, “Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths.” Now, Rachel […]
George Clinton Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution announced two essay contests: • The annual American History Essay Contest for students in grades 5-8; • The Patriots of the American Revolution DAR High School Essay Contest for students in grades 9-12. Both are open to any student in the stated grades. […]
When Yanina Bellini Saibene began her career in data science at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learnt a little English at secondary school, but her family couldn’t afford the extra courses she would have needed to master the language, and at university […]
Click here to view original web page at UM Student Dives Into Summer of Writing, Surfing, Self-Discovery Izabela Garcia-Arce, a UM graduate student in Environmental Studies, looks out over the Pacific from a volcano near San Quintin, Baja California. (Photo by Justine Holden) UM’s Izabela Garcia-Arce (left) takes a selfie with her friend Dahlia Diaz […]
Click here to view original web page at Local crime author uses background enhance writing Crime writing draws inspiration from many aspects of life, including from one’s own life and experiences. A book titled “The Cipher” is a part of a series featuring FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and draws in a law enforcement background […]
Click here to view original web page at HMPRESENTLY: Writing an Ode I had to look up ‘ode,’ before attempting to write one. An ode, in my favorite online dictionary, is defined as “a lyric poem expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.” ‘Emotion?’ In my ode, there’s some of that. ‘Exaltation?’ I’m sure hoping so, […]
Click here to view original web page at Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing “You cannot let worry win.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . If you hang around the writing racket long enough, you will see every sort of writing […]
Click here to view original web page at When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ BlockBetween subway stops on the F train, on my way to see a psychopharmacologist for a headache I’d had for six months, I received another rejection from another agent for yet another draft of my book proposal. […]
Click here to view original web page at Woody Allen announces retirement from filmmaking to focus on writing Film director Woody Allen attends a press conference at La Scala opera house, in Milan, Italy, on July 2, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP) American Jewish actor and director Woody Allen announced Sunday that he is retiring from filmmaking […]
