By Kurt Vonnegut
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
These [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Writing With Style
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008You Rock, You Rule
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Are Web Safe Colors Dead?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008The browser safe color palette consists of 256 colors that are dubbed as web safe. This is because they were developed back when computer systems utilized 8 bit video cards and the 256 colors chosen were developed by programmers with no design sense. No designer would have picked these colors, as they lack both light [...]
No Love For Bad Grammar
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Who would have thunk bad grammar could wreck a relationship? Well, from a letter written to Ask Amy from Loss For Words, that is exactly what could happen.
I am dating a very, very nice man. There’s just one problem: his language skills. He was not taught to speak properly. For example, he consistently uses [...]
The Joy of Prose
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
List of Essentials
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write [...]
You’re A Typo
Monday, July 7th, 2008This post could have used one more glance over!
This is a common typo that a spell checker will never find.
