Archive for the ‘prose’ Category

Consider Web Content Before Design

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Companies considering setting up a new website need to start the process by thinking about what they want their web site to say in order to achieve maximum online exposure. Some web design firms tend to design awful websites because they are obsessed with getting attention through images and not through words.
When people come across [...]

Writing With Style

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

The Joy of Prose

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Kerouac’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 [...]