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Alan Turing’s Lost Notebook (And Other Million Dollar Notebooks)

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Alan Turing, the mathematician that founded computer science and broke Germany’s “Enigma” code to help win WWII, was recently immortalized by the Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game.  His story, once unheard-of outside of the world…

The Esteemed Note-Takers That Inspired Field Notes

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Do you remember the rare joy of having class outside? My tenth-grade Biology class cherished our nature walks, which we were allowed to take every so often as long as we took copious notes while our teacher lectured on the local flora and fauna.…

642 Things to Write About: The Year 2100

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For the next week, we’re going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…

642 Things to Write About: Great-Great-Grandmother’s Diary, June 16, 1865

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For the next week, we're going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…

Environmental Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The United States has a rich literary tradition.  A big part of that tradition has to do with writers who explored the virtues of the ecosystem and humankind’s relationship to the land.  Here are three environmental writers whose works have…

2013 in Review: Our Favorite Things

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Ann Mazzaferro: Writer When word came down that it was time for the 2013 Year-End Round-Up, I was forced to take a good, long look at my life for the past year. It wasn't pretty. In fact, I am more out of touch than that dorky uncle of yours…

Some of Our Favorite Christmas Movies

Christmas movies are a holiday tradition among my friends and I, and I bet they're a tradition for some of you folks too. There are so many great ones, it's hard to pick favorites, but I'd like to share with you my top five. If you haven't seen…
NaNoWriMo

Tips to Prepare for NaNoWriMo

The holidays are here again - and I don't mean Halloween and Thanksgiving! I'm talking about National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. Every year I intend to participate, but the daunting task of writing a whole novel in the month of…
Authors who write longhand

Five Famous Authors Who Write Longhand

These days, it seems like most of the writing I do takes place on a computer - email, essays, memos at work, Facebook messages, even these posts, and the list goes on. It was a comfort to know - and I hope it will be for you too - that some…
English Majors

10 Things Only An English Major Will Understand

Remember meeting people in college? You'd always ask/get asked the Big Three: 1. Where are you from? 2. What dorm are you in? 3. What's your major? Nothing said more about you - for better or worse - than the answer to #3. I spent four years…