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• Writers on Writing

  
  How to write — Authority: 103
  Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. - Samuel Johnson Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion ...
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• Math is not his strong suit

  
  archy — Authority: 538
  Jim DeMint has decided to revive an idea that was dumb when Gingrich made it part of his Contract with America fifteen years ago and which is still dumb today. The dumb seems to a bit infectious, as this Hill piece by Jordan Fabian shows. A Republican senator on Tuesday introduced a Constitutional amendment that ...
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• Somewhere, Noah Webster silently weeps

  
  archy — Authority: 538
  From Politico : "Few political observers or elected officials doubt that an energized GOP has a headwind at its back." Pointed out by TPM .
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• Why Does Anyone Listen To David Brooks? Women and Sex Scare Me edition

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 493
  The punditocracy is, as we all know by know, frighteningly well populated by naked emperors.  David Brooks is not the most egregious — not for lack of trying, I admit — but given the competition, I’m not even sure if he makes the top ten. But he is exemplary, and his column of November 2 provides a great ...
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• Now you, too, can write like a Ph.D. candidate!

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  Why you would want to is a whole ‘nother question, but Make Your Own Academic Sentence is the answer! (h/t: Chronicle of Higher Education ) Posted in Fun Tagged: babble, bad writing
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• Interesting links for November 5, 2009

  
  Booklorn — Authority: 405
  A few interesting links that have come my way: #1: How to Write Badly Well . Hilarious and spot on. #2: Wondering if what’s still safe to eat in your fridge? Check at Still Tasty . #3: In honour of NaNoWriMo : Things Novelists Do While Their Novel Remains Unwritten . Related Posts Interesting links for August ...
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• Festival of Bad Writing, Fall 2009 entries

  
  Rethorykal Questions — Authority: 113
  Please avoid opening sentences like these: “X is such an important part of society today” “In today’s society, x are popularly consumed” These sentences are born of desperation and cowardice, and we hates them forever.
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• Just Wondering

  
  Stick Poet Super Hero — Authority: 125
  Do you ever wonder what the worst writing of the best writers looks like? Those poems and scratching that never make it. Aborted poems. A year ago or so there was a book published with some of Elizabeth Bishops unpublished work. "Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments," by ...
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• Andrew Sullivan Fouls (Another) One Off — and Then Grotesquely Strikes Out: God, Evil, and Auschwitz edition, part two

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 493
  Way, way back in blog years (aka, about two weeks ago), I posted  the first of a three parter on Andrew Sullivan’s follies as he attempted to waffle his way around the theodicy problem .  That’s how to harmonize belief in an omnipotent and omniscient loving God with the existence of evil in the world, ...
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• Brave new phrases

  
  Rethorykal Questions — Authority: 113
  I think this is the gate outside the garden of the Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans I had not realized that “loving bluntness” was in common use as description of behavior or style of speaking. I guess it’s harsher than “loving kindness”, but still has some religious echos, at least that’s what I gather ...
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