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A Year in Manhattan: Utilitarian Buildings on Central Park West
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A Year in Manhattan. Photographs and commentary about living in Manhattan. Sunday, December 28, 2008. Utilitarian Buildings on Central Park West. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 101 Classical Music CDs. My New York City Photos on Flickr. Overstating Food-Borne Illness Data. View my complete profile.
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Quick Writing Tips: A Low Information Diet
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Sunday, January 26, 2014. A Low Information Diet. Sociopolitical events, debates, and controversies are now lucrative forms of entertainment, as the media employs unpaid and fiercely motivated actors.". Guess who the "fiercely motivated actors" are? Uh-huh: You and me. Arguing on Facebook and Twitter, in the comments on political and news websites, and clicking on yet more inane articles on the Huffington Post and Gawker. Less internet, more writing. What I Just Read.
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A Year in Manhattan: The Dakota
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A Year in Manhattan. Photographs and commentary about living in Manhattan. Sunday, January 11, 2009. Possibly the most exclusive residential building in all of New York City, the Dakota became famous in 1980 as the site of John Lennon's assassination. Security has been tight at the building ever since. Anyone famous had to rethink their way of life after Lennons' death. Detail, railing in front of the Dakota:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 101 Classical Music CDs. My New York City Photos on Flickr.
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Quick Writing Tips: Worry Porn
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Sunday, August 4, 2013. You're using a Teflon pan? Aren't you worried about that? Vaccines will give my child autism. Are you concerned about Bisphenol-A in the linings of your canned food? Have you heard about the risks of dihydrogen monoxide. We all have friends who share concerns like these, via chain emails, articles on Facebook or idle conversation. And of course the news media immerses us in this stuff around the clock. 101 Classical Music CDs. What I Just Read.
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Quick Writing Tips: Don't Waste Time Agonizing Over Phrasing
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Don't Waste Time Agonizing Over Phrasing. Writing offers us an infinity of agonizing decisions. At my food blog Casual Kitchen, I've spent more time wording and rewording a single sentence than I've spent on the entire post. Is this a good use of my time? Okay, sure, it depends on the importance of the sentence. Your title and your lead sentence. The time you spend agonizing over the phrasing of a sentence is time you. 101 Classical Music CDs.
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Quick Writing Tips: TV Costs You Quadruple
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. TV Costs You Quadruple. One more quick thought about the disastrous economics of television. Whenever our television convinces us to buy something, it ends up costing us quadruple. First, we take time away from our writing or other creative work to watch TV. Second, it encourages us to engage in lifestyle copying, another waste of our creative energy. Brief, actionable advice to improve your writing. 101 Classical Music CDs. What I Just Read.
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Quick Writing Tips: Write Your Lead Last
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Write Your Lead Last. Do you ever spend too much time trying to figure out how to. An article, an essay, a blog post, a book? It's generally a waste of time to try to craft your lead or your introduction first. Once you've completed most or all of the body of your article, it will be a lot easier to craft a good lead. Brief, actionable advice to improve your writing. 101 Classical Music CDs. What I Just Read. Mystery Writing Is Murder.
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Quick Writing Tips: Use Reversals to Violate Your Readers' Expectations
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Short writing tips. Twice a week. Sunday, August 19, 2012. Use Reversals to Violate Your Readers' Expectations. A reversal is a sentence writing technique in which the writer presents an idea in one form and then restates the idea in an opposing form. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. This sentence, from John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address, does two things extraordinarily well: it uses parallelism. And it violates the audience's expectations. The first p...
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A Year in Manhattan: Overheard Near the New York Public Library
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A Year in Manhattan. Photographs and commentary about living in Manhattan. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Overheard Near the New York Public Library. One tourist, shouting to another, outside the New York Public Library:. You know, here's the library from Ghostbusters.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 101 Classical Music CDs. My New York City Photos on Flickr. Overstating Food-Borne Illness Data. View my complete profile.
