Archive for February 24th, 2004
Time to sharpen my writing after reading this … WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle Here’s my scissored version (for lazy people):
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1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than ‘’said” to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb ‘’said” . . .
5. Keep your exclamation points under control.
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This blog The Wound Has Healed, but the Scar Still Hurts drew me back to important realities I can not and must not ignore.
“The art of leadership is keeping the tension between too little and too much stress.” -Richard Leider , Founding Partner, Inventure Group via First Impression
‘We should take care not to make the intellect our god; – it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.’ ~ Albert Einstein via Joi Ito
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