Category Archives: Writing

Does The Shining Really Need a Vampire Sequel?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Having already thoroughly exhausted the topic of movies and their bad sequels it gets us thinking about books and their sequels. I am not referring to books that are part of a series of books — such as the Harry … Continue reading →

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When Using Profanity Gets You Fined

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

One of the biggest arguments regarding profanity I ever heard in school at every level — grade school, high school, and even at Rutgers — was that profanity was arbitrary because people just decided that one word was going to … Continue reading →

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The Folly of Strict Constitutional Constructionism

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

English language experts wrote the United States Constitution.  When those authors wrote — “in order to form a more perfect Union” — they were making a hard and specific point that is lost on many of us today.

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Thoughts on Writing Prompts

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

In the summer of 1991, I attended a camp for artistic expression of all sorts — I had applied and entered for writing and so I took a number of different writing courses of the creative variety. One of the … Continue reading →

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