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Author: Richard

Richard Everywriter (pen name) is the founder of EveryWriter and a 25-year veteran of the publishing industry. With degrees in Writing, Journalism, Technology, and Education, Richard has dedicated two decades to teaching writing and literature while championing emerging voices through EveryWriter's platform. His work focuses on making literary analysis accessible to readers at all levels while preserving the rich heritage of American literature. Connect with Richard on Twitter  Bluesky Facebook or explore opportunities to share your own work on ourSubmissions page. For monthly insights on writing and publishing, subscribe to our Newsletter.

Don’t count Google out of Ebooks Yet

Posted on July 4, 2018April 10, 2019 by Richard

The Washington Post is reporting that the justice department is investigating Google’s deal with publishers and authors for exclusive rights to digitizing all orphaned books. Read the article, it’s important. I’m not sure what is behind Google’s thinking in all of this. Maybe all tech companies get too big and greedy after awhile, but I…

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The Great “Copyright” (Freedom of Speech) Debate

Posted on June 30, 2018April 10, 2019 by Richard

Newspapers on Washington Avenue (Minneapolis) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by Susan Lesch. Used under GNU Free Documentation License. Editors Weblog.org has an interesting article: “Us: The great copyright debate” and other sites are coming out reporting editors calling for new laws. Read this above article, I think it is going to impact everyone on the…

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Looking for magazine for kids? Here are our 10 Best Magazines for kids.

Posted on June 25, 2018August 15, 2018 by Richard

So I wanted to find a couple of kids magazines for my son and daughter. I thought “What could be more fun than getting a cool science magazine or literary magazine on their level! Ugh,

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51 Word Summer Story Contest

51 Word Summer Story Contest

Posted on June 24, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

Ok, this is our 51 Word Summer Story Contest. We have run many of these in the past. We usually offer a non-cash prize for the contest and publication. The last horror contest we ran we were not able to make good for our winners. We were publishing a print issue of our magazine, and…

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Exquisite Corpse: for writers, we all need a break.

Posted on April 30, 2018October 22, 2024 by Richard

Welcome to our game for writers. It is an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts

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Continue the Story

Posted on April 30, 2018March 25, 2025 by Richard

We haven’t done one of these in a long time. Our Haiku, Horror Story, and 2 Sentence Stories are doing so well, we thought we’d add one more, Continue the Story…

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Call for Art Submissions

Posted on April 27, 2018October 17, 2023 by Richard

We are looking for art for our site. We are looking for photos, paintings, computer art, anything that we can display on our site with short stories an poetry.

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Writing Prompts

Posted on April 25, 2018May 20, 2019 by Richard
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“I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.”

Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad

Posted on April 22, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.” These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate.  The…

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Poem: Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Richard

Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin studies British & American Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He has been published by The Claremont Review, Four Ties Lit Review, AOM, and has won the ZO Magazine Silver Prize for Poetry

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Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing by Mark Twain

Posted on April 19, 2018December 1, 2023 by Richard

Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing by Mark Twain   It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper’s literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more…

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POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA by Walt Whitman

Posted on April 19, 2018December 1, 2023 by Richard

POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA SHAKSPERE—THE FUTURE by Walt Whitman Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripened fruit to a tree, the apple or the peach, no…

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my first typewriter sucked! by mark twain

My First Typewriter Sucked by Mark Twain

Posted on April 17, 2018December 1, 2023 by Richard

THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES (From My Unpublished Autobiography) by Mark Twain   Some days ago a correspondent sent in an old typewritten sheet, faded by age, containing the following letter over the signature of Mark Twain: “Hartford, March 10, 1875. “Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge that fact…

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On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain

Posted on April 16, 2018December 1, 2023 by Richard

On the Decay of the Art of Lying  by Mark Twain An Essay for Discussion, read at a meeting of the historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, and offered for the Thirty-Dollar Prize. Now First Published [Did not take the prize] Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered…

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Poetry as a Study by William Wordsworth

Poetry as a Study by William Wordsworth

Posted on April 15, 2018December 1, 2023 by Richard

With the young of both sexes, Poetry is, like love, a passion; but, for much the greater part of those who have been proud of its power over their minds, a necessity soon arises of breaking the pleasing bondage; or it relaxes of itself;—the thoughts being occupied in domestic cares, or the time engrossed by…

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