Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it.
– David Brin
Month: June 2018
haiku 391
really, TV show?
a convenient vent
to crawl through?
Quotable 273
For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot, writers frame their world.
– Jeanette Winterson
haiku 390
neighbor cats move –
our new bag of food
remains
Quotable 272
Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.
– Jonathan Price
haiku 389
watching the ice storm
on the radar
not out the window
Author’s Note: Adding to the Fun
While tooling around online, I came across someone who unabashedly used the word “funnest” in a sentence. The Internet is a wonderful place, and I spend a lot of time there, but it isn’t necessarily a haven for grammar purity.
The usage irked me, and the sneaking suspicion that it’s slowly becoming standard irked me even more. A quick search led me (naturally) to both Grammar Girl and the Grammarist. The short version of both is that I was right to be irked: those of us who would rather rake our nails across a chalkboard than to use “funner” or “funnest” are likely on the losing end of linguistic history. There’s nothing fun about that.
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Quotable 271
If you are moved by someone else’s work, study it to discover how they made the magic.
– Jenny Wingfield
haiku 388
power lines –
ancient stars burn
in the dark