The Daily Port of Call: March 26, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find literary death matches in Texas, how to maximize your working memory, and whether Denis Johnson is America’s most influential living writer.

Literary death matches come to Texas!

Here are five easy jumpstarts to get your writing flowing.

Research shows that taking timed breaks and then returning to work benefits your working memory.

Here are 12 tips for writing good book reviews.

Flavorwire asks, is Denis Johnson America’s most influential living fiction writer?

There is no one right path to writing.

The Daily Port of Call: March 25, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find how to use ritual to increase productivity, the success of book clubs, and a new online book recommendation engine.

Need to increase your writing productivity? You can use ritual. Check out this guest post by Writership Captain Alyssa Archer on Writers Helping Writers.

Here are 19 writing tips from writers and editors of The New Yorker.

Publish your book before it’s done. In-progress publishing used to be the norm.

The success of book clubs: “What happens when you read a book in the company of others? You enter its world together but see it in your own way; and it’s through sharing those differences of perception that the book group acquires its emotional power.”

There is a new online book recommendation engine from the New York Public Library.

We can’t help but ask, which Dewey Decimal number are you?