Planning to learn a foreign language this year? Then break out a new journal. Studies show that writing down foreign words and phrases is one of the best ways to learn a foreign language. When you start writing these down on paper it improves improve your recall and understanding of foreign vocabulary and syntax.
The Top 10 Drafting & Mechanical Pencils
The difference is clearly explained between a drafting & mechanical pencil with our top 5 recommendations for each pencil type. …
Interview: Writer Femi Martin
Femi Martin is a storyteller.
She’s created fiction inspired by Charles Dickens novels, shared her struggles with illness in the Achalasia Diaries on BBC 4, and captivated UK festival audiences with performances of her short stories about love, relationships, and stolen chocolate bars.
Her stories always start at the point of a pen, and Femi was kind enough recently to share with us how writing by hand guides her creative process.
Interview: Amanda Miller, the Chalkboard Lady
Art comes in all forms.
It can be a pen-and-ink drawing. Or a watercolor painting. Or a delicate pencil sketch.
Or sometimes, it can be a simple chalkboard menu written in a flowing hand.
Meet Amanda Miller, known as the Chalkboard Lady to her clients.
The Top 5 Green Ink Pens
A couple of months ago, I wrote about teachers and students using green ink as part of a feedback system that focuses …