Archive for January, 2009

I wanted to point you all over to the Frustration Contest at one of my favorite sites, FreelanceWriterville.com.   Now, this contest doesn’t offer fame and glory (unless you count at $10 Amazon Gift Card), but it’s free to enter, has a 300 word limit, and deals with something we all know a great deal about — frustrating [...]

After my last post about the Flesch-Kincaid Test and how it quantifies writing to a worrying degree, my online book club weekly selection just happened to be Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres.
The way the book club works (a few pages per day), I’ve only read about 5 pages of it so far, but the premise of [...]

In last week’s New Yorker, Jill Lepore had an article called “The Speech.”  While the article was mostly about how the majority of inaugural addresses suck aren’t very memorable, she touched on something called the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test.  You may have seen this sucker floating around on the ‘net at one time or another, but to [...]

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Upcoming Appearances

If you live in the Atlanta area, I would love to meet you. Please see below for a list of events I plan to appear at or attend over the remainder of the year. Stop by and say hi, or better yet, drop me an email and let's coordinate a get together!

December

The Write Room's Playpen (Literary Reading & Music Showcase) - Tuesday, 12/1/09 - Johnnie McCracken's Pub (Marietta, Georgia) - Join us for Festivus!