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Every year, the Bulwer-Lytton Awards honor people who strive to write the worst first sentences for a novel that they can possibly imagine. But the winning science fiction entry this year is so weirdly similar to the …
Also tagged: books, bulwer lytton awards, starfist wings of hell
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 24, 2008
Francine Prose has thought a lot about writing in the 35 years she's been trying to make a living at it. And one of the things she thinks is: It can't be taught.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 1, 2008
A CURE FOR NIGHT By Justin Peacock Doubleday. 341 pp. $24.95 At the start of Justin Peacock's terrific first novel, "A Cure for Night" (to be published tomorrow), Joel Deveraux, a lawyer with a top-drawer Manhattan …
Also tagged: new york city, osama bin laden, manhattan, brooklyn, addictive, random house inc, brooklyn college, myra goldstein, lorenzo tate, justin peacock, joel deveraux
smithereensblog.blogspot.com » Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose - Aug 20, 2008
It's been a been quiet around these parts this past week, I know, and I'm sorry. I am currently in the midst of packing up everything I own because I am moving this month, so the web has taken a bit of a back seat. On …
Also tagged: productivity, guest post, author jonathan crossfield
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - Aug 15, 2008
The results for the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton contest were announced last week, and for the first time, the winner is a Washingtonian.
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psychcentral.com » Psych Central News » Psychology - Jul 31, 2008
The poetic or literary style using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants is an ageless method to communicate in a format that fosters memory while being fun to read. In several experiments …
Also tagged: poetry, general, sounds, professional, brain and behavior, poems, psychology, mental health and wellness, work and career, memory and perception, lifehelper, alliteration, aloud, alliterative, alliterations
smithereensblog.blogspot.com » Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose - Jul 30, 2008
I know, I know, you all probably thought Wordplay Wednesday was dead and gone, a relic of a bygone era (last month.) But alas, if you did, you were wrong. For this Wednesday, our date with clever diction will be kept! …
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smithereensblog.blogspot.com » Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose - Jul 21, 2008
In my last post, I promised that I would update soon with a guide for other Blogger-bloggers who would like to know how to create Category-specific RSS feeds. This is something that can be done easily enough on …
Also tagged: productivity, blogger hacks
smithereensblog.blogspot.com » Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose - Jul 17, 2008
Can you even imagine a pun that is more high-brow than the one I just used in this post's title? (I certainly Kant .) But fear not, this post is not about deontological philosophy, it's just about categories. On this …
Also tagged: productivity, persuasion
cydeweys.com » Cyde Weys Musings - Jun 19, 2008
A couple days ago, whilst reading a post on a well-known blog (though I no longer remember which one), I noticed an unmatched parenthesis. A long parenthetical aside, fully two paragraphs in length, was not terminated …
Also tagged: dyslexia, english, personal, programming, editor, writing, computer science, coding, editing, error, composition, punctuation, lisp, parentheses