Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Is it tough for you to write first drafts of a paper? Join the club. Author Frances O'Roark Dowell finds sitting down to write really hard sometimes, even though she's an author. In fact, she has a thirty-minute rule. She must write for thirty minutes, five days a week before calling it quits. (Source.)
No love for the ending? You're not the only one. Fans lashed out at the quick ending of the book, which surprised Dowell. Even so, she likes the ending. She wanted to end on the image of the family playing cards instead of going into the details of what happened to TJ. (Source.)
If Jamie had a playlist, Credence Clearwater would be at the top of it. Don't believe us? Just ask the author. (Source.)
In the roughly fifteen years of American military action in Vietnam, no official declaration of war was ever made by Congress or sought by any of the four presidents that served during the conflict. (Source.)