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This week’s Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) to dig into the archives of our fellow Weekly Geeks. We’re supposed to choose some blogs, look through some of the oldest posts, then write a post featuring the blogs we’ve read over the week. We’re also supposed to read [...]
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Over the last month or so, I’ve been working on a group multimedia story for my intro reporting class. All stories were related to the election; my group focused on chalk messages and their use as a way to express alternative points of view. After a long, long process of writing, rewriting, editing and messing [...]
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Once upon a time, Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a story in six words. What did he come up with? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Awesome, right? This Hemingway legend is the basis for the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. Editors at SMITH magazine, [...]
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This week I haven’t done much reading because I’ve been very busy writing. As I worked, I found myself more and more annoyed with the process of constantly writing and rewriting. I thought this would subside after I turned in my group project on Friday, but this frustration has reared its ugly head again today. [...]
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Marg over at Reading Adventures tagged me to post six things about myself. I don’t really get tagged for stuff like this very often, so it’s actually kind of exciting. One: My sister drove all the way to Madison this weekend (from the Twin Cities) so that we could hang out and go see High [...]
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Just last week I came across the blog Black Cover, a site “dedicated to the search for the perfect little black notebook.” This is a site after my own heart, as I frequently go on quests to find the perfect version of anything, including office supplies. It took me three years and countless planners to [...]
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