Thanks to our editing friends in Australia, The Expert Editor, for this infographic. In this interesting article from The Guardian, “Why do writers drink?” Kingsley Amis in, “– comparing writers to actors – suggests “displaced stage fright as a cause of literary alcoholism. A writer’s audience is and remains invisible to him, but if he is any […]
While doing research for the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber post, I wanted to share with you some of Thurber’s cartoons. However, I thought it would get lost in the middle of the philately*. So, as an added Friday Fun! bonus… Here’s the “I’m so glad you’re a writer — […]
Palindromic Names Ada Anna Ava Bob Elle Hannah Otto Viv Palindromic Phrases A man, a plan, a canal : Panama Able was I ere I saw Elba Dammit, I’m mad Madam, in Eden, I’m Adam Never odd or even Rats live on no evil star Some men interpret nine memos Was it a car or a […]
Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs In September 1982, David Ogilvy sent the following memo out to all who worked at Ogilvy & Mather, the ad agency he founded 30 years prior. His advice still stands today, and is one of those timeless pieces that goes along with William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, and Strunk & […]
UPDATE : The Kindle version has gone live. Please stop by, and if you decide you like it, buy it, and please come back and give us a review on Amazon. The paperback version is still slated to be published shortly. Check back for more information! Thanks for reading everyone! Book Doctor Dara I”m excited […]
Writers Block. Editors Block. Bane of my existence. That is all. Go back to your regularly scheduled reading now…
