Lessons from the "Banksy of punctuation"

“I’m a grammar vigilante,” he said. “But it's more of a crime to have the apostrophes wrong in the first place."

"I'm going to write windows, I'm going to write mirrors, I'm going to write books that are going to elevate and empower young people, to help them become more human." -Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander on poetry and young people: 

"The power of poetry is that you can take these emotionally heavy moments in our lives, and you can distill them into these palatable, these digestible words and lines and phrases that allow us to be able to deal and cope with the world," he says. "I think it's one of the reasons why young people love reading novels in verse. It's because, on a very concrete level, it's not that many words so it's not that intimidating to me. There's so much white space."

from the NYPL: authors share their writing tips

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/10/20/authors-share-best-writing-tips?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

something nice from Gao Xingjian

"It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth." 

Another reason to love notebooks

"Typing is fast. Handwriting is slow. Weirdly, that's precisely why handwriting is better suited to learning."

Read on: 

http://www.businessinsider.com/handwriting-helps-you-learn-2014-12

Paper piles for all generations

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All the things that stand in the way

from Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Friday morning with Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones

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Don't let this be you!

From Slate: This is What Happens When No One Proofreads an Academic Paper