SCI-ART LAB
The Art of writing
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Writers, write your own stuff and not just expand others' matter!
I have seen a trend among writers these days to use lots of quotes, anecdotes, clippings and references from others' write ups, books, papers etc. and just expanding other peoples' ideas! They pick up matter here and there, make a mixture of it and present it as their own. These works look like …
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Writing on the Science of Creativity
When an idea pops into your head, it feels so miraculous and mysterious that for centuries people attributed such epiphanies to the gods. In Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer examines the science behind inspiration, looking inside the brain to find out what is happening when we're visited…
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The insights of a Physicist and writer into science and art
According to physicist and novelist Alan Lightman:Creative imagination and inventiveness have always been hallmarks of good science, just as of good writing. Writers must conform to certain recognized truths about human nature, just as scientists must conform to truths about non-human nature.Both…
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Write a book on sold ideas? No, thanks!
" Visit our website for ideas to write books on ", one of my followers on Twitter sent me a message.As it is I am struggling to manage time for the four books I am already writing. More ideas - that too borrowed ones? "No, thanks, my hands are aching - unable to cope with the ones I am writing…
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Haiku
Haiku Sky weeps Colour Autumn leaves … basanti shawls yellow paper kites in mustard fields … night full moon; an old panhandler … a shrine chanting smoke under Peepal … I doze Buddhaopens up his eyes---© Hamid YazdaniToronto, Canada
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Ancient art of writing
Here is some history of ancient art of writing: It clearly shows ancient people used pictures of art to write & communicate with others.Source: WikipediaMiddle Babylonian legal tablet from Alalah in its envelopeHistory of writingThe history of writing follows the art of expressing words…
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Use of some vocabulary shows the state of mind of the writer!
Famous mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer's. Two Toronto university professors have finally proved what many biographers of the world's top mystery novelist have hinted at - that she suffered from mental illness. This research by professors Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst on…
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Author's words create "fingerprint"
Based on writing styles of Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists have developed a formula to detect author's literary "fingerprints". A new concept from a group of Swedish physicists from Umee University uses the frequency with which authors use new words in their work to…
