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Escritura sobre la marcha: Conoce a Juma Kliebenstein

Annie Cosby
enero 15, 2025 | 2 lectura mínima

"Me gusta escribir en diferentes lugares", dice la autora infantil Juma Kliebenstein. "Básicamente, en cualquier lugar, menos en casa. En cafeterías, bares de hotel o en la naturaleza".

¿Quién puede identificarse? 🙋

Juma es una autora alemana de libros infantiles que ha publicado nada menos que 17 libros desde 2009. Su nueva serie de libros, "Die schlimmste Klasse der Welt", ha aparecido tres veces en la lista de los más vendidos del país alemán.

Juma dice que era una niña muy activa, siempre andaba por el barrio en su triciclo. Pero cuando tenía cuatro años, la hospitalizaron repentinamente y la confinaron en una habitación, lo cual fue una pesadilla para una niña exploradora como ella.

Aprendió a leer y escribir en el hospital y pronto se dio cuenta de que si tienes historias, no importa si estás atrapado en un lugar. Puedes viajar dentro de tu cabeza.

Hoy en día, puede hacer ambas cosas.

Y elige usar sus historias para invitar a los niños a viajar a mundos que no requieren mucho dinero ni un cuerpo sano. Un lugar que pueden visitar sin permiso de nadie.

Juma escribe todos sus libros en su máquina de escribir inteligente Freewrite color limón o en su Alpha blanco moteado. Le encanta poder llevarlas a todas partes.

(Eligió la brillante y soleada edición especial Lemon porque coincide con el diseño de la portada de su serie más vendida).

[Freewrite] ha mejorado mi vida como escritora. Antes, cuando escribía en mi portátil, siempre estaba relacionado con la declaración de la renta, el correo electrónico a las editoriales, la organización de giras de libros y todo eso que los autores hacen pero que no tiene nada que ver con escribir. Ahora, cada vez que escribo en mi Freewrite, me siento como una autora, y nada más. ¡Es maravilloso!

Juma da una advertencia: si lleva sombrero, significa: "¡Por favor, no molesten! La autora está escribiendo una nueva historia para ustedes con mucha concentración y se pondrá furiosa si la interrumpen".

La cuarta entrega de la exitosa serie de Juma se lanzará en febrero de 2025.

enero 09, 2026 2 lectura mínima

A new year means a whole new crop of work is entering the public domain. And that means endless opportunities for retellings, spoofs, adaptations, and fan fiction.

diciembre 30, 2025 3 lectura mínima

It’s Freewrite’s favorite time of year. When dictionaries around the world examine language use of the previous year and select a “Word of the Year.”

Of course, there are many different dictionaries in use in the English language, and they all have different ideas about what word was the most influential or saw the most growth in the previous year. They individually review new slang and culturally relevant vocabulary, examine spikes or dips in usage, and pour over internet trend data.

Let’s see what some of the biggest dictionaries decided for 2025. And read to the end for a chance to submit your own Word of the Year — and win a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT YOUR WORD OF THE YEAR]


Merriam-Webster: "slop"

Merriam-Webster chose "slop" as its Word of the Year for 2025 to describe "all that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters."

The dictionary lists "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, 'workslop' reports that waste coworkers’ time … and lots of talking cats" as examples of slop.

The original sense of the word "slop" from the 1700s was “soft mud” and eventually evolved to mean "food waste" and "rubbish." 2025 linked the term to AI, and the rest is history.

Honorable mentions: conclave, gerrymander, touch grass, performative, tariff, 67.

Dictionary.com: "67"

The team at Dictionary.com likes to pick a word that serves as “a linguistic time capsule, reflecting social trends and global events that defined the year.”

For 2025, they decided that “word” was actually a number. Or two numbers, to be exact.

If you’re an old, like me, and don’t know many school-age children, you may not have heard “67” in use. (Note that this is not “sixty-seven,” but “six, seven.”)

Dictionary.com claims the origin of “67” is a song called “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, quickly made infamous by viral TikTok videos, most notably featuring a child who will for the rest of his life be known as the “6-7 Kid.” But according to my nine-year-old cousin, the origins of something so mystical can’t ever truly be known.

(My third grade expert also demonstrated the accompanying signature hand gesture, where you place both hands palms up and alternately move up and down.)

And if you happen to find yourself in a fourth-grade classroom, watch your mouth, because there’s a good chance this term has been banned for the teacher’s sanity.

Annoyed yet? Don’t be. As Dictionary.com points out, 6-7 is a rather delightful example at how fast language can develop as a new generation joins the conversation.

Dictionary.com honorable mentions: agentic, aura farming, broligarchy, clanker, Gen Z stare, kiss cam, overtourism, tariff, tradwife.

Oxford Dictionary: "rage bait"

With input from more than 30,000 users and expert analysis, Oxford Dictionary chose "rage bait" for their word of the year.

Specifically, the dictionary pointed to 2025’s news cycle, online manipulation tactics, and growing awareness of where we spend our time and attention online.

While closely paralleling its etymological cousin "clickbait," rage bait more specifically denotes content that evokes anger, discord, or polarization.

Oxford's experts report that use of the term has tripled in the last 12 months.

Oxford Dictionary's honorable mentions:aura farming, biohack.

Cambridge Dictionary: "parasocial"

The Cambridge Dictionary examined a sustained trend of increased searches to choose "parasocial" as its Word of the Year.

Believe it or not, this term was coined by sociologists in 1956, combining “social” with the Greek-derived prefix para-, which in this case means “similar to or parallel to, but separate from.”

But interest in and use of the term exploded this year, finally moving from a mainly academic context to the mainstream.

Cambridge Dictionary's honorable mentions: slop, delulu, skibidi, tradwife

Freewrite: TBD

This year, the Freewrite Fam is picking our own Word of the Year.

Click below to submit what you think the Word of 2025 should be, and we'll pick one submission to receive a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT HERE] 

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