Eye Comb Editors

12/28/2020

“That was kinda cool to be nominated for a Grammy for reading out loud when I couldn’t read . . . in my teens,” Haddish disclosed.

Her drama teacher taught her to read at age 16. Remember, you do not have to be a good reader to become a good reader. You do not have to be a good writer to become a good writer. Let 2021 be your new beginning.

Happy New Year 🎆

https://thegrio.com/2020/08/16/tiffany-haddish-reveals-she-couldnt-read/

Tiffany Haddish says she couldn't read until she was a teenager and the reason she cites is based on her turbulent childhood.

10/21/2020

Happy Halloween from Eye Comb Editors

02/27/2020

The Japanese word describes piling up books to save for later ... even if you'll never actually read them.

01/29/2020

How many times do you guess you'll make it to the library this year?

08/19/2019

Inspired by this back-to-school greeting from author Patricia Polacco, who didn't learn to read until age fourteen and didn't start writing books until age forty-one, but now reads her award-winning children's stories in schools all over the country.

08/01/2019

A little bit every day goes a long way.

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This “million word gap” could be one key in explaining differences in vocabulary and reading development, said Jessica Logan, ...

07/30/2019

My dear academic, corporate, or nonfiction writers tend to nominalize. Learn from this video how to avoid nominalizations and add life to your text for your reader's pleasure.

https://youtu.be/dNlkHtMgcPQ

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/beware-of-nominalizations-aka-zombie-nouns-helen-sword Few mistakes sour good writing like nominalizations, or, a...

07/29/2019

It's never too late to share your writing with the world.

After decadeslong careers in landscape architecture and sculpture, centenarian finds art in words

06/21/2019

A poem for the young writer. Any kiddos in your family with writing talent?

06/20/2019

For the bookworms who do not melt in sunshine, may we recommend . . .

Life just gets better and better for lazy people and I am here for it. The laziest among us know one of the true summer struggles — do I lay on my back and do nothing or do I lay on my front and do nothing? Laying around and doing nothing besides…

06/11/2019

“'I never kept a journal of anything like that as a kid, but I would write stories every day. I used to come home from school to find my dad working in his office and my mum [Tabitha King, another celebrated novelist] working in hers, so I just thought that was what you were meant to do,' he says. 'I thought you were meant to sit by yourself in a room and make up a bunch of stuff, then one day someone would pay you for it. And weirdly, that’s what happened.'”

It is never easy, being the child of a famous person.

06/10/2019

Congratulations to author Genaro Celis Torres for achieving #1 Amazon bestseller status. Genaro's constructive optimism and receptiveness throughout the editing process exemplified the tenets of his book. Learn how to apply ancient martial arts wisdom to your life and business here: https://www.amazon.com/DO-Path-Continuous-Growth-ebook/dp/B07Q3X3QNK

06/05/2019

Never knew bars had such linguistic potential. Cheers.

05/25/2019

An understandable but devastating error on the part of the author and her publisher. Please fact-check everything in your book, especially any main argument or terminology upon which your book is based.

Somewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.”

05/23/2019

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05/21/2019

Unclear antecedent

05/17/2019

And then email it to yourself in case something happens to your computer after 50 hours of work. You?

05/13/2019

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Coffee mug with this text on it: Remember to close all parentheses. We’re not paying to air condition the entire paragraph.