Articles Tagged with writing

Destroying the world (almost)

Science to serve the plot

We comment on a science-fiction novel in progress.

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Professional writing

and professional reading

Some writing is not what we’d expect.

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Putting pen to paper (III)

Too easy

Why do some easy things never actually get done?

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Putting pen to paper (II)

The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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Putting pen to paper

Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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Cutting it short

How is a poster like a sonnet?

Our astronomer struggles to fit into a limited space.

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Just like it sounds

Reforming English spelling?

Learning how to spell in English is difficult.  Reforming the system would be harder.

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Reading the script

Languages and sounds

Writing is a wonderful invention, but it has its limits.

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Junk mail

Making things easy

New technology often makes a task much easier to do.  That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.

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Reading the manuscript

Why handwriting?

Communication in writing nowadays is almost exclusively done in type.  Why, then, should anyone care about being able to write legibly?

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