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Harper Lee’s Condition Debated by Friends, Fans and Now State of Alabama – NYTimes.com

Author News, Publishing / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 12, 2015 / Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Now the State of Alabama has been drawn into the debate. Responding to at least one complaint of potential elder abuse related to the publication of “Watchman,” investigators interviewed Ms. Lee last month at the assisted living facility where she resides. They have also interviewed employees at the facility, called the Meadows, as well as […]

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Reading in Flow

Fiction, Literature & Psychology, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 10, 2015 / Csikszentmihalyi, featured post, flow, literature, psychology, reading

Related Posts: Flow Getting Lost in a Good Book: Scientific Research on Reading Flow and the Reading Process If you’ve ever had the experience of getting lost in a good book, you’ve experienced flow. Csikszentmihalyi’s general characteristics of flow describe this experience. The key to flow is complete absorption in an activity. For readers, the

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On Reading

Ebooks, Reading, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 3, 2015

Being a Better Online Reader Maria Konnikova collects evidence and hypotheses about how the shift from print to online texts has changed the experience of reading. She begins with reference to Maryanne Wolf, whose book Proust and the Squid examines the history of the science and development of the reading brain from antiquity to the

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Blog a Day Challenge: February Report

Challenge, Personal, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 28, 2015 / a blog a day 2015, blog, blog post length, blogging

January was all about convincing myself that I could indeed find something to write about and produce a blog post every day. In February I turned my gaze outward and looked at other blogs and bloggers instead of just my blog/myself as blogger. I found a number of blogs that I learned a lot from.

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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 10

Personal, WordPress Writing 201: Poetry, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 27, 2015 / brain, full-body transplant, poem, poetry, sonnet

It’s the final day of this course, Day 10, which offers the following challenges: Prompt: future Form: sonnet Device: chiasmus Sonnet A sonnet is normally composed of 14 lines of verse. There are several ways you can split your sonnet into stanzas (if you wish to), though the most common ones are 8–6 and 4–4–3–3.

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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 9

Personal, WordPress Writing 201: Poetry, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 26, 2015

Right up front, let me admit that today, Day 9, is the one day I allowed myself to bail on, as I’ll explain in the section labeled Writing Process below. Today’s parameters are: Prompt: landscape Form: found poetry Device: enumeratio Found Poetry Like a blackmail letter in a sordid crime novel, a found poem is

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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 8

Personal, WordPress Writing 201: Poetry, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 25, 2015 / ode, poem, poetry

Today’s Day 8 assignment involves: Prompt: drawer Form: ode Device: apostrophe Ode An ode is a laudatory poem celebrating a person, an object, a place, etc. It can come in any form these days, having shed its ancient (and much stricter) formal requirements. At their best, odes are both a compelling portrait of something and

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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 7

Personal, WordPress Writing 201: Poetry, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 24, 2015 / poetry, prose poem

Here’s the assignment for Day 7: Prompt: fingers Form: prose poetry Device: assonance Prose Poetry A prose poem is any piece of verse written using the normal typography of prose, while still maintaining elements of poetry, like rhythm, imagery, etc. The words may be arranged typographically like any piece of prose, but the sounds, the

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WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class, Day 6

Personal, WordPress Writing 201: Poetry, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 23, 2015 / anaphora, ballad, Elizabeth Blackwell, poem

The second half of our poetry writing course begins with this Day 6 assignment: Prompt: hero or heroine Form: ballad Device: anaphora/epistrophe Ballad Ballads are dramatic, emotionally charged poems that tell a story, often about bigger-than-life characters and situations. They can be long, short, rhymed, or unrhymed — by now there are no strict rules

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Harper Lee, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Marilynne Robinson, Richard Ford, Anne Tyler

Author News, Book Recommendations, Fiction, On Novels and Novelists / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 22, 2015 / Anne Tyler, digital humanities, featured, Harper Lee, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, old age, Richard Ford

Man in Hole: Turning novels’ plots into data points Dan Piepenbring reports for The Paris Review on an example of digital humanities, or the application of big-data crunching to literary analysis: Motherboard has a new article about Matthew Jockers, a University of Nebraska English professor who’s been studying what he calls “the relationship between sentiment

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