Writing

Three versions of the American Declaration of Independence

Posted by crown

Cut and paste from the blog:

"We dropped Jefferson's alpha into TextFlow ( www.textflow.com) as an "original Word document" that he really wrote with a feather, and then the committee beta and the 1.0 Congress release for comparison."

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Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture

Posted by Sandyenglish

Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and political activist, died on August 22, aged 84. She described the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the postwar period more ably than almost any other writer of her generation. She wrote in an ironic tone that implied, at its best, that there were historical processes latent within the travails of daily life.

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There's no life like it: An essay on being a mother

Posted by Orato

My friend Tom was persistent in his requests for me to join his writers group. He told me to just come once, write about something, or not. “You can do whatever you want,” my cheerful friend said, “the group is very supportive. That’s the whole point of getting together,” he would say somewhat paternalistically, “to support each other.” When I finally run out of excuses I commit to the next Tuesday night meeting. I’m nervous.

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Stone Writing Earliest Seen in Americas

Posted by Billbar

"We are dealing with the first, clear evidence of writing in the New World," said Stephen Houston, a Brown University anthropologist. Houston and his U.S. and Mexican colleagues detail the tablet's discovery and analysis in a study appearing this week in the journal Science. Villagers in the Mexican state of Veracruz discovered the tablet sometime before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material. News of the discovery slowly trickled out, and the study's authors traveled to the site earlier this year to examine and photograph the block.

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LiveScience.com - Letters in All Writing Systems Traced Back to Nature

Posted by Billbar from Live Science

The shapes of letters in all languages are derived from common forms in nature, according to a new hypothesis by Mark Changizi, a theoretical neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology. The idea, in some ways seemingly obvious and innately human, arose however from a study of how robots see the world.

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Geek to Live: Turn Firefox into a web writer

Posted by Jeff from LifeHacker

Very cool post by Gina on Firefox extensions that make it easier to write longer prose from any Web page.

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