writing

We Heart It, semi-colon close parentheses.

by Mark October 3, 2010 mind_candy

A junk food trope. The next time you read a written-out emoticon, think. You’ll frequently find them as a simile or metaphor. So helpful of the writer, comparing two things, one unknown and one vapid. The happy meal of metaphor.

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Earnest Hemingway

by Mark March 14, 2010 Art

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Earnest Hemingway

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http://www.onesentence.org/

by Mark March 20, 2008 instruction

[http://www.onesentence.org/|http://www.onesentence.org/] Is a good idea for teaching students (and others) to tighten up their writing.

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