Arnie Bernstein
Realities of Writing: the anti-Hallmark Movie Truths
There are lots of romantic notions of what the writerly life entails, the kind of stuff promulgated by frothy fictions. My favorite...
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Sharpen Your Prose with These Random Writing Tips
On the back of my business card, I have a series of random — and excellent — writing tips that I’ve accumulated over the years. It’s...
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Closing a Chapter By Recycling Your Books
Like many people, I’ve decided to downsize and divest myself of things I no longer need. Getting rid of outworn toasters or old clothes...
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Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 3-The Writing Process
In Part I of this series we looked at how to find your story. Part II looked at how to do research. Now that you’ve gathered copious...
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Writing Your Nonfiction Narrative Book: Part 2-The Research Process
Here’s the second in our series of narrative nonfiction building blocks. This week we’re looking at research techniques, tips, and...
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Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 1-Finding Your Story
Over these next three weeks you'll learn the building blocks of creating your narrative nonfiction book. This week we're looking at finding
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It Never Added Up: My Adventures in Dyscalculia & Le Cinema
I will never forget that awful day in fifth grade when my teacher—a miserable wretch of a person who never should have been allowed in a...
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An Ode to My Typewriters or "Thank you, Miss Begley" or ASDF JKL;
People are surprised that I use a manual typewriter to create my first drafts, but I don’t think anyone would be more astonished than...
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Writers of the World: Ignite! You have nothing to lose but your constraints
The Inflexible Paradigm Perhaps the biggest problem I run into as a writing teacher is having to detach students from the rules inflicted...
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Unlocking the Natural Gifts of Dyslexic Learners
When Alta Graham was in first grade, she was behind the other students in her class. Alta was dyslexic. Unable to comprehend the alphabet...
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Post-Pandemic Homeschooling: What's Next?
At Last? After 16 long months, something resembling “normal” is coming back. It’s been a long haul since March 2020. Moms and dads were...
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Let's Go Gray!
I write this with tears in my eyes. No, I'm not weeping over a sad movie and let's be honest, who doesn't get weepy when Sonny is...
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The Elements of Style: Your Best Grammar Textbook
I used to think that writing grand and elaborate sentences strung together in monumental paragraphs were the foundations of Great...
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Robert F. Kennedy and His Timeless Speech for America
Today, June 5, 2021, is the 53rd commemoration of the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, killed by an assassin's bullet. I use the word...
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Poring Over Print: the 5k of Reading?
Reading is hard. Seriously, reading is hard. I don't mean hard in the sense of working your way up and down the sometimes-impenetrable...
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My Life as a Fan (of Philip Roth)
He was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for my first years of high school I seem to have believed there was no other writer...
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A Night with Studs Terkel
Note: "My Night with Studs Terkel" will appear in the upcoming book Carbituaries, coming soon from Everything Goes Media. In March 2012,...
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