For all those writers and aspiring writers out there who would like to learn from Stephen King, he shares his story about how he learned to write. In addition, he gives tips on how to write successfully. The top three are: be talented, be neat, be self-critical. Sounds like good advice for anything else you might want to pursue in life. Read more.
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Iris Chang, daughter of Chinese immigrants, broke the silence on the atrocities committed against the Chinese when the Japanese army invaded in 1937. She gave voice to those who have lived with the memories and pain of Japanese horrification and dehumanization. She wrote in her best-selling book, "The Rape of Nanking," of narratives from Chinese people who have lived through and witnessed the brutality of the Japanese. Though her book was never published in Japan, she, nonetheless, makes the Japanese accountable for their torture and brutality toward the Chinese.
"An estimated 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped," Chang wrote. "Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters and sons their mothers as other family members watched.""Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced."
She committed suicide and died at age 36. Her body was found in a caron a road South of San Francisco. She has been suffering from clinical depression. Read more.
Madonna has reinvented herself yet again. This time, she enters the stage as an author of children's books. She said the idea for her her five children books that came from her Kabbalah teacher. "The English Rose" is the first of the five books that Madonna will write for children over six. It is being launched with a celebrity tea party today. Global release is scheduled for the following day. She wants to teach children "a thing of two about life, love and the pursuit of happiness." Read more.
Hillary Clinton's memoir, Living History, is expected to be released in June. The first edition is going to be 1 million copies. The 576-page book has a price tag of $28. The book will cover the 8-year period of Hillary Clinton's life in the White House. Hillary is not the only Clinton cashing in. Bill Clinton will provide his point of view as to what happened. His memoir is schedule to come out in 2004. He's already been paid $10 million for the future memoirs. Read more.
Ann Pachett won this year's Orange Prize for her novel Bel Canto. The Orange Prize is an award given to the best novel written by a woman. The award comes with a cash prize of approximately $68,000. It is considered one of the world's top awards for female fiction writers. Read more.
Julia Ferganchick-Neufang expresses concern that women teachers and professors involved with online education will experience the same level of sexism and harrassment online as they do off-line. The online communities are conditioned by the same socialization patterns as in the society at large. Research has shown that female teachers in higher education are often targets for student agression in the form of harassment. Women have not traditionally held positions of power within academic institions, therefore, students are uncomfortable with their authority and challenge them. Read more.
Colonizing cyberspace is a challenge for women. Presently, it is male dominated. Josie Arnold advocates using poetics, particularly elements of scripting, cybertexts to transcend genre. Poetics gives a more free and roving view of what text is like. It is interactive. As Arnold puts it,"each experience consists of a reader coming to terms with her or his own self through a navigation of the writers' thoughts, ideas, feelings, wordskills and knowledge." Feminist poetics can be a way for women to contribute to cyberspace and change the nature of it. Read more.
Get to know Kamala Das. Very interesting interview. Kamala Das has always been strong, daring and forthright. She is unconventional in her thinking. She defies tradition and exposes issues that other Indian female writers were not talking about. Read more.
