1) June 16, 1904, is the day the novel Ulysses, by James Joyce, takes place, so June 16 is celebrated as Bloomsday. Ulysses was published in 1922, making this year the hundredth anniversary of the book. When I realized this, … Continue reading
1) I used to read quite a few blogs by aspiring writers* (back before that blog world was swallowed up by social media), and there were always “helpful” bits of “wisdom” being thrown around, like “adverbs = bad” and “kill … Continue reading
This is sort of a continuation of my last post. Another thing I liked was this interview with David Lynch. Specifically this part: The A.V. Club: With Inland Empire, I understand there wasn’t a full script before production. Were you … Continue reading
Well, I’ve watched all of the second season of The Witcher, and it was very good. In fact, there were some lessons to learn in comparison to The Wheel of Time, which is the show I watched right before The … Continue reading
I get the A.Word.A.Day emails every day, and yesterday’s was about “agathism,” which I thought was a coincidence since I had just talked about Agatha Christie in my last post, but it turns out the word is not related in … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting article: “Can ‘Distraction-Free’ Devices Change the Way We Write?“ Microsoft Word is a terrible tool for writing, because it’s not designed for it. It’s designed for corporate word processing (and, more recently, simple desktop publishing). It has … Continue reading