#Hemingway

Kaleigh Moore

kaleighf

Let's talk about using metaphors in writing (and why it's a good idea + how to do it well.)THREAD. 1. Hemingway said: "A writer's style should be direct and personal,

Helen DeWitt

helendewitt

Yday: listened to fab podcast of @craigtimes and @Carl_Hiaasen & thought: September is Suicide Prevention Month! How often have I been close to the edge & backed away thanks to

Madeline Peltz

peltzmadeline

How Fox News left Jennifer Griffin out to dry, a timeline:4 PM - she confirms reporting on the Atlantic story that Trump insulted war dead.https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1301975321495973889 4 PM hour - Griffin

Anton Hur

AntonHur

Ok, this is a point that needs discussion. Obviously, everyone translates at different speeds, but what’s drowned out in the context of the marketplace is that faster is not better,

sṫǔttsiiso’ōḱǎasim

MrHWM

i think a lot of american writers (probably artists but its more clear in narrative art) are dishonest about their class origins right now and that its translating into the

Luke Geddes

neurosescatalog

At every author Q&A, someone asks how they become a writer while working a "real" job & having life responsibilities, etc. Usually the answer is "just do it," "a true

Jack Butcher

jackbutcher

The Eighth Wonder of the World: (thread) 1/"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it." — Albert EinsteinIt

Jason Pitre

Genesisoflegend

Let's take a little bit of time to talk about software for RPG designers and publishers. There are a lot of free and affordable programs that you can use for

Matt Haig

matthaig1

I know there is nothing more wanky than a writer offering writer tips but I am a writer (and a wanker) and am in a bedroom waiting for one of

Alex Schillemore

AlexSchillemore

Lots of #MilTwitter chat about plain English today. Here are some resources I find helpful:1. @GDSTeam have put together this guide for http://GOV.UK which has some great tips for planning

snig

novakasp

— reddie as excerpts from letters . . . thanks again for saving me. someday, i’ll save you too.– zelda fitzgerald, from a letter to f. scott fitzgerald yes yes

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BenjaminABock

WHAT IS THE FIFTH COLUMN? -- [th{read}]Context is everything - “Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”― Jesse Ventura >>> Post 10436102After years of discussions on this board

David W. Peters

dvdpeters

Today the church remembers John Muir, Naturalist and Writer, 1914, and Hudson Stuck, Priest and Environmentalist, 1920.Lots of folks know how Muir was a huge part in creating our national

supernova irvin edwards

bombaycanary

Ok, while I think that dismissing somebody's art is generally dotish because somebody's art is self-expression, I also don't think that art being subjective is is any reason not to

saamaanya jeevi

SaamaanyaJ

A thread on my engagement with Fiction and "Pockets of Silences".A good book is climbing up a hill, if not a mountain. Its a collection of different slopes, rythms, intensities,

Fidato

tequieremos

“Classy insults from literature”1. “You speak an infinite deal of nothing” ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice2. “You are the last man in the world I could ever be