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By Cynthia Leitich Smith for Cynsations Yowza! It's no small task to catch up Cynsational readers on a summer of children's-YA writing, literature and publishing conversations. More update posts will follow over the next several days--focusing on gender...

In history of film uncountable characters have delivered great speeches and legendary lines that sometime have even become part of our everyday language. You have been made offers that you could not refuse and asked if you were talking to Robert De Niro...

When people give tips on content creation, they invariably include something like, “edit for grammar” or “pay attention to the rules of grammar.” That’s excellent advice, but I often think there’s something going...

This is a guest contribution from Benjamin Brandall. Unless you’re writing instructions or technical copy, writing is a creative process. When writers are in the flow, they work in bursts of energy, hammering out paragraphs without stopping to think...

The following is a guest post by Lauren Squires. While "grammar nerds" are psyched about Weird Al's new "Word Crimes" video, many linguists are shaking their heads and feeling a little hopeless about what the public enthusiasm about it represents: a...