Excellent guidelines for writing readable regulations are published by the U.S. Federal Register. It's so nice when government organisations make resources like this available to the general public as well as their own staff. I hate think of the money...
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How is the internet changing literary style?
How is the Internet changing literary style? asks Caleb Crain on Steamboats are ruining everything. It's a leisurely, literary, philosophical talk transcribed. So why would I ruin everything by paraphrasing? I'll just quote a bit. Crain writes a lot for...
Selecting a patron... yay!
When I was a kid I used to wonder what a 'patron' was. Having a patron for a voluntary organisation like the Girl Guides seemed gratuitious if not smarmy at the time. So why am I grinning inanely today? Plain...
Writers rooms are not tidy
The writing rooms of famous writers: see them on the Guardian web site. Bother Miriam Richardson for telling me about this page: it is fascinating. So this writer has just wasted an hour looking and reading about where other writers...
Nielsen on style
Writing Style for Print vs. Web: Jakob Nielsen waxes philosophical on the differences between writing for the Web and print. And praises the campfire and books as superior learning media. Summary: Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless...