The Writer's Pulse

"How many of you read the newspaper?" That question was asked at least once at the beginning of each semester back when I was taking journalism classes. Few hands were raised, mine not one of them, and the teacher at the head of the class (himself a...

Hey, media, we've been over this: stop blowing things out of proportion. Chances are you've heard about Geoffrey Stanford, the high school junior who pointed out an error in a Kansas writing test. The error was a simple matter of word usage -- the word...

I'm glad video games are starting to get the respect they deserve. I mean, sure, some are just mindless button-mashers. And yeah, they can be violent. They get a bad rap, though, and as an avid gamer myself I'm glad to finally see that they're at least...

When I check my e-mail everyday at Yahoo.com, they're always throwing some stupid news story at me that I just have to click on. Go figure. Anyway, turns out Stephen King doesn't care too much for "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer's writing: According...