Today I am excited to showcase Wordle —  an app that creates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear

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  Todd Dombrowski, CEO of Book Candy Studios, is sympathetic to the many hats authors have to wear these days given that he’s married to aUSA Today bestselling author.  “Ten

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  Today is the WordCount Blogathon “Haiku Day.” Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical

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    This question, posed to bloggers taking part in the WordCount Blogathon, got me thinking about what I would do differently if I was starting over.   I launched

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  Cover photo by: Rachel Hadiashar “I’m not experimenting, Opal. I know what I’m doing.”   “Umm… Yeah.” Opal glanced at Sally’s burnt thumb and then at the wrinkles on

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The Writing Well is devoted to book reviews or recommendations every Sunday in May. Last year for Memorial Day I paid tribute to “Three Must Reads of the War-time Experience:”

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Soldiers in Iraq after receiving requested authors and titles. No soldier should be without a book. That simple sentiment spurred Atlanta area bookseller George Scott to launch Books for Heroes,

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My five-year-old daughter was very proud of this portrait she created of our extended family.  “Make four copies and give them to Aunt Lisa, Uncle Mike, Uncle Matt and Grandpa,”

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  Army helicopter pilot Mark Clotfelter.   Today marks the final Friday I’m hosting a guest blogger from my writer’s group.  Susan Clotfelter Jimison, a full-time book store owner and

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This morning’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral marks a new era in space exploration. SpaceX’s bold move to rocket the first private spacecraft to the International

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