Writing-Communication

Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method

by Gerald M. WeinbergCopyright (c) 2011 Gerry Weinberg has a PhD in communications and has written around 60 books on various topics, mostly having to do with computer programming. As a glorified computer programmer and an aspiring writer, this Weinberg book on his methodology for writing seems appealing. His basic take runs through writing from the heart. He uses the analogy for nineteen of twenty chapters in this book of craftsperson building a wall with…

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Fiction-Stories

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte BronteFirst published 1847. Jane Eyre was and is a classic of the English language. Originally published part-way through the Victorian era, this book tells a story of a woman who lost her parents to an early death and was raised and educated in an orphan’s asylum. (It is important to note that this was before the rise of the welfare state in Britain and before public education was recognized as a right.) Her…

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