Today’s advice is simple: Read everything, and reflect. For why I keep it that simple, keep reading (and for a longer, more editing-specific version, read the wise John McIntyre). I grew up an eager reader, encouraged by my mother. I was also a quieter-than-normal kid. Well, my mind raced faster than I could communicate, soContinue reading “2 things to do before writing or editing”
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Profit, media and the Web can, will co-exist
What if the Web and social media are just a Ponzi scheme? The thought’s crossed many a mind, surely, even if just in momentary frustration. Profitability is a tough slog online, seemingly tougher and less predictable than print — or what print was. For all the billion-dollar success stories, there are labors of love andContinue reading “Profit, media and the Web can, will co-exist”
Phrases that don’t make sense to today’s children, Vol. 2
One in an occasional series looking at how language changes within a lifetime. Today’s entry: “You have mass calisthenics and mechanical pitchers and moving pictures to look at to see what you’re doing wrong, and a host of other things.” — Fred Snodgrass, baseball player from 1908-16, during the 1960s, as told in “The GloryContinue reading “Phrases that don’t make sense to today’s children, Vol. 2”
Phrases that don’t make sense to today’s children
“He wrote to her every day and the letters arrived twice a week in little bundles. She arranged them like newspapers by the date and read them in the correct order.” — “Cheap In August,” by Graham Greene (1967) Newspapers? Letters? Bundles?? (and maybe “wrote”)
James daSilva 