Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Sensible Style: Writing in the 21st Century

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Last week I reread Steven Pinker's THE SENSE OF STYLE (2014), subtitled "The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Cen...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

He, She, It , or They Said

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Nowadays a widely accepted piece of advice about writing fiction sternly rebukes any use of dialogue tags other than the simple, almost invi...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Presently Tense

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Does anybody really like fiction narrated in the present tense? Apparently, to my bafflement, many people actually do, since that device see...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Reviews 41, Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio - Fan Fiction Styling Has Gone Mainstream

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Reviews 41 Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio Fan Fiction Styling Has Gone Mainstream  Reviews posts have not yet been gathere...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Stylistic Superstitions

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There are a couple of too-prevalent over-corrections often seen in published writing that especially bug me. "Lay" as the past ten...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

The Sense of Style

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I've been rereading THE SENSE OF STYLE, by Steven Pinker, published in 2014. The lucid and witty cognitive scientist Pinker, one of my f...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Plot-Subtext Integration Part 2: Ruining The Romance With Words by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Plot-Subtext Integration Part 2: Ruining The Romance With Words  by  Jacqueline Lichtenberg Today we'll examine a terrific nove...