Poet of the Day #1

Brian Turner, who published a book called Here, Bullet about his experience as a soldier in Iraq. Check out his reading on YouTube here:



Also, there's a good interview with him on NPR.

Quote of the Day #6

"In a world in which people are paid to spin every utterance so that it seems more and less than it is, a writer is someone who is un-spinning words, who is unashamed of the complexity of truth, who is not interested in dumbing down for the benefit of the sound bite"

-Baron Wormser

50 Amazing Online Writing Tools

Check out this incredible list of writing tools I found using StumbleUpon. It's 50 tools, ranging from alternative word processors to spell checkers to a program that generates writing prompts for you. All of the items on the list are open source, so anyone can use them for free. Some days I really love the Internet.