In composing my last post I was confused about whether my spelling of focussed was correct. Even now my resident spell checker doesn’t like it, giving it the wavy red line of disapproval. Turns out in Australia we can use either, following the UK double s or the US singular. One grammar blog puts it …
Amusing guides to generate genre fiction from How To Write Badly Well. Take the guides, roll the suggested die, insert the chosen plot element. eg. This story is a disturbing tale of adventure and regret. The protagonist is sarcastic and optimistic; as the story unfolds, he/she will be forced to return home in unexpected circumstances. …
Read (and got sort of involved in) a comment stream on another blog last week that developed because of the difference between an author’s use of tone and what happens when readers don’t interpret a text using the intended tone. I bailed out when the discussion came to be more about the tone issue than …
Too helpful not to post. I know some young men who’ll find this quite helpful. [via]
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