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• 250 words is the soul of wit

  
  The Hannibal Blog — Authority: 121
  Polonius From time to time, I recall  Matt Mullenweg’s casual aside that the average number of words per post is almost always  exactly 250. That number is so small! My average post is perhaps 600 or 800 words long. Perhaps it’s habit: that is the length of most articles in The Economist . Still, the ...
  3 days ago

• "cut to the damn point already: a wedge is a wedge, shopping is shopping, that color is RED."

  
  Young, fabulous, & broke. — Authority: 135
  “cut to the damn point already: a wedge is a wedge, shopping is shopping, that color is RED.” - …on writing too much jibberish « the adventures of yoshi
  4 days ago

• Tanks For the Memory

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
  Something to do with the fact that it’s almost Veteran’s Day??Personally, I’m rather impressed by the parallel parking job.
  5 days ago

• Buzzwords & Business-Speak

  
  N2Growth Blog — Authority: 493
  By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s rant is going to be short and sweet, but contrarian and politically incorrect as usual. Buzzwords and Business-Speak…it’s so difficult to spend even a few minutes in conversation without hearing a litany of the most popular catch-phrases, that ...
  6 days ago

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  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
  
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• Brenda Miller: On Form and Distance

  
  BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog — Authority: 114
  You can imagine our excitement last week when Brenda Miller, author of so many beautiful Brevity essays and craft pieces (see here and here and here and here ) dropped by the Brevity corporate offices last week as part of her visit to Ohio University’s BA, MA, and PhD in Creative Writing ...
  1 week ago

• Watch Your Language! Tips On Writing Sales Letters

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 159
  Writing sales letters can be more challenging than you think. There are certain formats to be followed, or you can risk tricking your potential customers into thinking that you are a disorganized bully who does not know what he or she is writing about. There is a certain respectful writing style that has to be used: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Keep it short--REALLY short

  
  The Eloquent Woman: A blog on women and public speaking — Authority: 421
  Lets face it, no one ever liked a long acceptance speech from an award winner--and now that audience attention spans are getting shorter and more cluttered with information, prize ceremonies are following suit. First, the Webby Awards for websites and blogs asked winners to limit themselves to no more than five ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Funnies: Road Trip

  
  Work Exposed the Blog — Authority: 118
  Posted in Humor Tagged: Brevity Comic, Friday Funnies, Humor
  2 weeks ago

• Anthony Edwards is Running

  
  Half-Fast - running advice you don't need. — Authority: 114
  Check out the hilarious new video from Funny or Die via the always humorous Mark Remy from RW Daily . Anthony Edwards has finally found a way to get back into television: The ING New York City Marathon. Listen and learn as he tells you about his preparation and planning for this spectacular live television event. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three for One: A Contest and Two Articles

  
  BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog — Authority: 114
  Three new items for a Sunday morning.  Click the highlighted headings for more information on each one: A Contest Announcing the 2009 New Delta Review Creative Nonfiction Contest, judged by Peggy Shinner. NDR seeks pieces that activate the compelling bits of “real” life. We welcome hybrid essays, ones ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wish I Was a Kellogg’s Cornflake

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
  Two related observations: I hope this comic is a rerun, otherwise that milk is way outdated.And speaking of reruns, I’m not sure many people outside of the New York area would get it, but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this was “First you address the ball…”
  3 weeks ago

• 2010 Calendars

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
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  3 weeks ago

• Well, Why Not?

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
  This might or might not be a lighthouse keeper. Either way, I got nothin’
  3 weeks ago

• Awkward Cult Dance Party

  
  Mission Mission — Authority: 582
  I have no idea what the article is about because I don’t have the requisite patience to read a 6 page article / 1,466 words*, but Mission Loc@l has a pretty epic picture of Cafe Gratitude being all culty. * From NeoOffice via copy and paste Previously on Mission Mission: Cafe Gratitude is a Cult Posted ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brevity and Beauty - Pomiane’s Eggs "Sur le Plat"

  
  RecipeMuncher — Authority: 152
  “First of all, let me tell you that this is a beautiful book. I can say that because this is its first page. I just sat down to write it, and I feel happy , the way I feel whenever I start a new project.”Opening paragraph fr (...)
  4 weeks ago

• Objection

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 137
  Is he just saying that he objects to the other attorney personally?
  4 weeks ago

• Get Ready, Get Set, TWEET!

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 508
  If you’re pithy and in need of money, then boy do we have a humdinger of a scholarship for you! Twitter is back, and it’s not just for celebrities anymore. It helped in Iran , and it can help fill your pockets. So what is this (apologies in advance for the unavoidable pun) “Tweet” deal? Well, Twitter is ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: Sin #3, Being Boring

  
  I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson — Authority: 492
  Being boring is sin #3 in my list of the seven deadly sins (which include being fake , irrelevant , boring, unreadable, irresponsible, inaccessible, and inattentive). Perhaps a more tactful way of saying something is boring is to say the writer neglects to “keep the audience’s attention.” I’m always hearing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jogging with Ortega

  
  BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog — Authority: 114
  Journalist Ron Arias offers some background on his essay from Brevity 31, “Snakes:” In working news and feature stories I often ached to tell what was happening around the edges. Nothing long and sometimes the stories were little more than anecdotes. They were moments like watching a starving little Somali girl ...
  8 weeks ago

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