I just saw a news-piece about the top passwords that people use to guard their access to their electronic accounts.
The fact that so many use PASSWORD, 123456, 654321, ABC123, not only demonstrates a disturbing lack of concern for information security, but also a frightening lack of creativity.
While some are born with the “creativity gene,” it [...]
My first grade teacher, Miss Mary Bodi, spent a lot of time bringing out the writer in her students. Regularly throughout the year, she asked us to choose a picture from a file. In it were magazine advertisements, clipped comics, and other images she’d collected.
One-by-one, were called to sit next to her at a table [...]
If your writers-in-training resist sitting for a fifteen-minute jounal entry or other writing exercise, you might have some success weaning them into writing “a sentence a day.”
This can be done on a computer, or handwritten in a notebook. I prefer the latter, since flipping to the story will maintain the quick and easy nature of [...]