Writing?
Monday, May 3rd, 20101) Is. Writing. And. Reading. Coming. To. This? 2) Breaking. Up. Everything. Into. Small. Bits. With. Lots. Of. Bold. And. Bullet. Points?
Archive for the ‘Lit’ Category
1) Is. Writing. And. Reading. Coming. To. This? 2) Breaking. Up. Everything. Into. Small. Bits. With. Lots. Of. Bold. And. Bullet. Points?
Stuff David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary
Thursday, April 15th, 2010David Foster Wallace circled "Osmium" and about 500 other word entries in his American Heritage Dictionary. My near obsession with David Foster Wallace continues. As I exert concerted effort to finish the last 16th or so of Infinite Jest, I keep happening upon other DFW internet material like ...
$1,000 edition of ‘On the Road’?
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In my youth I idolized Jack Kerouac. Ran across this upcoming edition of his "On the Road" on Amazon. It lists for $1,000. I'm sure it is extremely limited with many great unreleased photos but still. I'm almost curious to learn more. I won't ignore more details about it if ...
Distilling ‘Ten rules for writing fiction’ into one or two words
Sunday, February 21st, 2010I'll now slaughter the multi-authored Guardian.co.uk article "Ten rules for writing fiction" by cutting several of the "rules" down to one or two words which may make more sense after reading the article. Many of the rules could apply to other forms of writing, and possibly, some to life. Write Write Write Avoid prologues Excise skippableness Read ...
Esquire’s ‘The Language of Men’
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009"Dude" is declared dead. "Cool" has been banned. You could and should be spouting euphemistic phrases like "wetting the sugar" and "spreading the mulch." Esquire's set of articles, The Language of Men reports on current state of the male lexicon. Words to use more of, words to eschew. You'll learn plenty ...
Less hyphenated words in new dictionary
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Reuters reports on the new absence of so many previous hyphenated words in the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition: Formerly hyphenated words split in two: fig leaf hobby horse ice cream pin money pot belly test tube water bed Formerly hyphenated words unified ...