Before long, a lot of music critics had heard it, and as music critics will, they started writing about it on their blogs and in print.
The researchers ranked students on a widely used measure called the Torrance Test of Creativity, which involves such tasks as drawing an "interesting and exciting" picture from a curved shape on a sheet of paper, giving the picture a title, and then writing a story about it.
Like a theater critic who loved it when a production was done right and hated it when it was botched, Jim delighted in writing about companies that were succeeding and had a visceral disdain for those flubbing the job.
Clarity of purpose and passion ruled the day with less time spent writing about an idea and more time spent just doing it.
But until recently I was writing about cybersecurity, and it does matter to the security of Europe, as the cyberattacks on Estonia in 2007 demonstrate.
The scrawny hand of crisis is now writing the next chapter and it is about Italy.
"I'm writing now and obviously affected by this situation in Boston, so I'm writing about it just to express myself, " he says.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
It was curious to read a Frenchman writing about America when America was small, unthreatening, and admirable, when it was still something underappreciated that the French could claim as their own and champion, like serial music or the novels of John Fante.
It is because of that fear that doctors order unnecessary tests and procedures in an attempt to cover themselves in case of lawsuits, and it is the reason health care professionals think twice about sharing information in writing or even verbally, lest it be used against them.
Britt Aboutaleb, a style news editor for Elle magazine, oversees the news section of Elle.com, and spends about 60% of her day editing and then the rest of it working on writing Web site features.
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We understand everything about her and then put it in writing.
Instead of writing about that unique experience and the discipline and stamina it required, he wrote a cookie-cutter essay about wanting to work in finance.
The court heard Mackrell's victims had been traumatised by their ordeal with one boy harming himself and writing suicide notes and the girl unable to speak about it.
Messrs Kinnock and Bush got exclusively negative publicity for their pratfalls, whereas the first minister won kudos for revealing something he could have kept secret, writing about it in an amusing manner and understanding that, if you are going to tweet, you should capture people's attention with an arresting anecdote not bore them with predictable propaganda.
And as I said, I've writing about Hip Hop and its various forms for about 10 years now, and again, having grown up with it.
She said in a ruling released to lawyers in the case Wednesday and to the public on Thursday that investigating and writing about newsworthy events worldwide was expensive and enforcement of the copyright laws permits the AP to earn revenue to fund it.
Writing is often all about acquiring knowledge very quickly and applying or shaping it into something digestible.
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Andrew Carnegie wrote prolifically about wealth and what to do with it, famously writing that the "man who dies...rich, dies disgraced".
On the evening I was there, Billy sat down with me as we talked about Irish history, the craft of writing, and what it was like to live in a town that holds his father in such high esteem.
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And the UK press currently monitors Twitter to see what it should be writing about.
And so it continued, with Fiennes gradually earning more from writing and talking about his exploits, as his fame grew.
It reports that the object, covered in runic writing and about 60cm long, was found embedded in granite and initially taken for "piping sticking out of the ground".
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What it was about was brilliant writing, preferably witty, and avoiding the pomposity that Mr Astor had objected to at Oxford, whether dealing with politics, books and arts, fashion, gossip or the generally unpredictable.
From the outside it may be difficult to make a connection between writing and editing about marriage and screaming sirens, but the entrepreneurial embers were stoked with fearlessness and a true understanding of an emergency.
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"It's like an infestation, and I'm writing about the general situation, not just about this bombing in Boston, but what we're going through with all of these tragedies -- shootings and so on and so forth, " he says.
If my keyboard jams in the process of writing this chapter, you expect me to stop, go buy another keyboard, install it properly, and keep writing, all without ever telling you about a single boring detail regarding my computer problems.
About a week after starting the group, Jon Chattman, the one who wrote the piece for the HuffPo, joined the group and then wrote me to ask if he could help spread the word by writing about it for HuffPo.
"I'm not optimistic about our economic future as a country, but as far as me and my journey to find happiness, and accomplish some of these goals that I've had -- weight loss and following my writing passion -- absolutely, I'm still really positive about it, " she said.
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