Category: Writing

When appropriate, break the rules.

Kevin Carey, in Too Weird for The Wire, deploys a well-timed run-on sentence to highlight the nuttiness of conspiracy theorist John Wales:
Soon, Posses were sprouting across the country, attracting veterans of the 1960s-era tax protest movement, Second Amendment absolutists, Christian Identity adherents, and ardent anti-communists who had abandoned the John Birch Society because they felt the organization wasn’t [...]

Learn to look at your sentences, play with them, make sure there’s music, lots of edges and corners to the sounds.

—Janet Fitch, Jacket Copy

From the archives

I’ve only been blogging here for a few months, but I’ve been whispering into the great unknown for a bit longer. Back when I was interning as a technical writer at Sun Microsystems, I authored a blog called Mark Settle’s Mighty Pen.
I just pulled it up for old times sake, and some of the entries are [...]