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How to improve writing (no. 37)
“Like at the post office.” Ugh.
howtoimprove  writing 
yesterday by M.Leddy
LAX English
“Please maintain visual contact with your personal property at all times.”
writing 
4 weeks ago by M.Leddy
“[B]eautiful and surprising and deep”
A passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
reading  writing 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
“They mess you up”
For the first time in a long time, the word “mess” has appeared in a Michiko Kakutani book review.
words  writing 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Florence Wolfson Howitt (1915-2012)
A diarist.
diaries  writing 
11 weeks ago by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 36)
When the context is serious, and a pun would no more than call attention to its maker’s cleverness, block that pun.
howtoimprove  puns  writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Betty Flowers: madman, architect, carpenter, judge
Betty S. Flowers says that one who writes must be, in turn, madman, architect, carpenter, and judge.
writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Margaret Edson on writing
“Sitting by yourself, forcing the swirl of thoughts into a linear, systematic journey forward — it makes you smarter.”
writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
“Rewording”
“Rewording” without attribution is plagiarism, though perhaps in a hapless and unsophisticated form.
college  plagiarism  writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Barthes on pens
In the end, I always return to fine fountain pens.
RolandBarthes  pens  writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
From The Waste Books
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s writing habits: sounds like proto-blogging.
notebooks  writing 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
National Handwriting Day
Thus a sample of my 1967 handwriting.
handwriting  writing 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Jessica Mitford on the Famous Writers School
From the July 1970 Atlantic, Jessica Mitford’s “Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers.”
writing 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Writing about writing
If you’re going to write about writing, write well. Someone at the Huffington Post didn’t.
writing 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
James M. Cain on Los Angeles
A catalogue of signage, from James M. Cain’s “Paradise,” a 1933 essay on Los Angeles.
LosAngeles  signage  writing 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Philip Gove on student writing
“There’s an almost invariable rule that writing prepared under assignment and therefore artificially under pressure has certain forced awkwardnesses that make it quite different from genuine human utterances.”
teaching  writing 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Marco Arment on blogging
Good advice for anyone who writes online.
blogging  writing 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Literature and word-processing
From the New York Times: “Jimmy Carter set off what may have been the first word-processing-related panic in 1981, when he accidently deleted several pages of his memoir in progress by hitting the wrong keys on his brand-new $12,000 Lanier.”
literature  technology  wordprocessing  writing 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
“Don’t be a brute”
Writing is still not word-processing.
wordprocessing  writing 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
“change modify revise alter rewrite amend chop to pieces change”
The strongest drive.
writing 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Reducing the number of — Cutting words
A New York Times article on college-application essays, edited to fit the 500-word limit of college-application essays.
writing 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Dale Carnegie 2.0
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People has been updated as How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age.
dowdyworld  writing 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Strunk and White parody
The Elements of Press Release Style
parody  Strunk  White  writing 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Sterne’s Yorick, distracted
A passage from A Sentimental Journey.
LaurenceSterne  writing 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
In favor of penmanship
Joanna Key favors penmanship.
handwriting  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Garner on writing in law school
More writing, more revision.
education  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Theodore Dalrymple on handwriting
He draws an extreme and doubtful conclusion.
handwriting  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
P. S. 131 for the win
A P.S. 131 student wins an essay contest.
Brooklyn  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
The benefits of handwriting
There are many.
education  handwriting  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Cursive writing in Indiana
On the way out.
education  handwriting  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
John Gruber, “Credit and Attribution”
A long and thoughtful post at Daring Fireball on giving credit where credit is due.
blogging  writing 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011)
From the New York Times obituary
travel  writing 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s eye
Patrick Leigh Fermor describes a monastic cell.
writing 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
“Death to high school English”
What are they doing in high-school English?
BryanGarner  teaching  writing 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Review: How to Write a Sentence
Adam Haslett’s cover blurb presents the book as a worthy successor to an earlier classroom text: “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.” I’d welcome such a book, but How to Write a Sentence is nothing of the sort.
sentences  writing 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 35)
“What does it mean to have a body like an elephant, but ‘much more so’?“
howtoimprove  writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Moleskine app
“To my mind, the design involves the same analog-to-digital mistake that Apple’s Notes app makes.”
analog  digital  iPad  iPhone  technology  writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Secret writing, 1917–1918
From 1917-1918, recipes for invisible ink and directions for opening sealed letters without detection
writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 34)
“Visiting guests.”
howtoimprove  writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
The earliest writing in Europe
3,350 years old
writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 33)
A comma semicolonized, from Infinite Jest
DavidFosterWallace  howtoimprove  writing 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
NoteSlate
“[Y]ou will love the wooden feeling of writing or drawing.”
technology  writing 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Three centuries of diaries
At the Morgan Library & Museum
diaries  writing 
january 2011 by M.Leddy
Adam Wheeler, prose stylist
Here is a perfect example of what Michael Harvey’s The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing calls “the pompous style.”
academia  writing 
december 2010 by M.Leddy
E-mail and punctuation
The effects of punctuation, typos, and voice on reader-response
e-mail  writing 
december 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 32)
A passage from the book Higher Education?
howtoimprove  writing 
december 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 31)
Avoid dangling modifiers.
howtoimprove  writing 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
David Foster Wallace's senior year
Two theses, lots of typing
DavidFosterWallace  writing 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
A voice from a term-paper mill
Writing other people's papers
cheating  college  education  faculty  students  teaching  university  writing 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 30)
A sentence from the New York Times
howtoimprove  writing 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
Stephen Sondheim's writing habits
Blackwings and legal pads
Blackwing  paper  pencils  writing  StephenSondheim 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 29)
Rewriting Verizon's prose
howtoimprove  writing  Verizon 
september 2010 by M.Leddy
The new Blackwing pencil
An extended review, with photographs
Blackwing  pencils  writing  writinginstruments 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Liquid graphite pencils
Not exactly new
pencils  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
The story of QWERTY
Keyboard history
computer  design  technology  typewriter  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Ernie Pyle in the Library of America
World War II writing, from the Library of America
books  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 28)
Improving vacuous, pretentious sentences from a brandy bottle
howtoimprove  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks, getting things done
A memo that gor results
GTD  music  VanDykeParks  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Nelson Riddle on the Blackwing pencil
He liked it
music  pencils  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Review: Liza Kirwin, Lists
Review of a book of artists' lists
analog  art  drawing  lists  painting  paper  pens  writing  pencils 
june 2010 by M.Leddy
Stephen Sondheim on pencils and paper
A Blackwing and legal pad man
analog  music  paper  pencils  stationery  writing 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
"When Seymour was twenty-one"
From J.D. Salinger, Seymour — An Introduction
Salinger  writing 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
The government-issue pen
Washington Post article on a dowdy writing instrument
dowdyworld  pens  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Roger Lathbury and Hapworth 16, 1924
How the publication of a Salinger novella came to naught
books  fiction  Salinger  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
John Gruber on typing and the iPad
"You absolutely do not need a hardware keyboard for it. But if you're hoping to do any amount of serious writing with it (and, for obvious vocational reasons, I plan to), you're going to want one."
Apple  iPad  technology  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Five sentences about clothes
Other people's homework
sentences  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Obama revisions
Analysis of draft revisions visible in a White House photograph
BarackObama  photography  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
What good writing looks like
Revise, revise, revise. White House photograph.
BarackObama  photography  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
How to improve writing (no. 27)
Changing Blogger's "View my complete profile"
Blogger  howtoimprove  writing 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
Artists' lists
A Smithsonian exhibit
art  lists  to-do  writing 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
Five sentences on the ship
Honoring a Google search
Google  writing 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
A Salinger sentence
From "For Esmé — with Love and Squalor"
Salinger  writing 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
Orange Crate Art: Margaret Atwood's rules for writers
Pencils
pencils  writing  writinginstruments 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
Red marks, blue marks (J.D. Salinger)
Salinger manuscripts, maybe?
fiction  writing 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
"The Essay Writing Song"
Fred Rogers, imaginary advice for college students
college  FredRogers  students  writing 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Lawrence Wright on writing tools
Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen
analog  indexcards  paper  pens  technology  writing  writinginstruments 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Another Salinger catalogue
The Glass family's living room
fiction  writing 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Stopette
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
dowdyworld  fiction  writing 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Sal Hepatica
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
dowdyworld  fiction  writing 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Musterole
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
dowdyworld  fiction  writing 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
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