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Pick-a-Poem: “Swordfish”
http://riverwalkmamas.com This week we feature another poetical selection from Poems.com, which is a great source for daily poems. If you’d like some rhyme and verse injected into your day, check out...
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Pursued: The First Western Noir
Pursued (1947) In westerns cowboys are usually depicted as symbols of ultimate freedom. In John Huston’s epitaph to the western, 1961’s The Misfits, Clark Gable’s character explains the life of a...
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Editor’s Notes #125
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, blog readers! It has been two weeks, so it’s time for a round-up of the posts that have been featured here over those weeks. Before I get to this,...
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Writing Advice: Get Writing
http://pompy.com I’ve beaten this drum many times before, I know. And I’m sure you’re getting tired of me saying it, too. But the best piece of writing advice that I have ever found is contained in one...
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Discuss: Re-Reading Books
http://harrypotter.wikia.com When I was younger, I was very big on re-reading books. These days, my to-be-read pile is so large that it’s simply not practical to be re-reading books I’ve already read....
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Writing Advice: Handwriting
http://shorelinesandsunshine. blogspot.com For the first time, I’m writing about some advice that I wouldn’t necessarily take myself. But I think this is an important piece of advice that has some...
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Discuss: Awesome Literary Things
http://oedb.org/ Unique Libraries This week for our Awesome Literary Thing, we start at the place where I’m guessing most of you started noticing awesome literary things: the library! Though I had lots...
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Pick-a-Poem: “Paper”
http://riverwalkmamas.com This week’s featured poem is entitled Paper and is written by Stephen Ackerman. I found this poem thanks to Poetry Daily, which is a great website at which you can find — as...
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Editor’s Notes #126
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good evening, readers! Here we are again at our bi-weekly check in post. I hope you’ve all been enjoying the freedom that summer affords you, and that...
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Writing Advice: Organic Dialogue
http://mercerdulcimer.com As I’m sure you well know, dialogue can be one of the most difficult things you will ever encounter in your writing endeavors. Dialogue is notoriously prickly and can be very...
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Discuss: Most Anticipated Books
http://www.edudemic.com The summer is just about halfway over, and — perhaps more momentously — so is the year. We’re halfway through 2013 — isn’t that crazy? For those in the bookish and publishing...
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Upton Sinclair’s Mental Radio
Upton Sinclair During project Acoustic Kitty the CIA implanted a microphone inside a kitten’s head and an antenna inside the same kittens tail with the hopes of turning it into the ultimate spy....
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Pick-a-Poem: Hadara Bar-Nadav
http://riverwalkmamas.com This week’s pick-a-poem selection comes to us from Poetry Daily yet again. They’re a great resource if you’re looking for some rhyme and verse in your life each day. This week...
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Writing Advice: Your Writing Space
http://tarabradford.com Most of the advice posts that I write here at the blog tend to be about the actual act of writing. But today I’d like to focus on something a bit more superficial — your writing...
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Discuss: Awesome Literary Things
Photo courtesy of: http://gallifreyan-detective.tumblr.com/ Bookstore in a Train Car There are some pretty interesting bookstores out there. There are also some really unique libraries, which I...
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Pick-a-Poem: “The Essay”
http://riverwalkmamas.com This week’s poem hearkens back to school days and essay writing. Perhaps we all need a reminder of school in the middle of summer, either to remind us how happy we are that we...
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Editor’s Notes #127
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good evening, blog readers! And welcome to another round-up of posts here at the Jet Fuel Review’s blog. I hope that you’re enjoying the summer, no...
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Advice: Characters Should Care
http://www.elpl.org What is at the heart of a good story? Most people would say that conflict is what creates that spark of an interesting and engaging read. But characters, I would wager, are just as...
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Discuss: Importance of Libraries
http://channelview.isd.esc4.net Libraries are important to me. They’re a fixture in my summer memories and they remain a refuge for me if I’m in a new and unknown place. Recently I had jury duty and...
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Pick-a-Poem: “Mud”
http://riverwalkmamas.com This week’s featured poem is entitled Mud, and it is written by Alice Teeter. This poem comes courtesy of Poetry Daily, which is a great website if you’re looking for some...
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