"True wit," wrote Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism, "is nature to advantage dress'd: / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd."  This typographical poem/video certainly fills the bill.  I got it from Terri Windling.  And I believe Every Single Word.  Passionately.

I like to think I am a moderate person.  I don't enjoy flaps, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, a Young Relative who is writing a novel sent ellen_kushner  and me a heartfelt plea for advice.  She'd been going along swimmingly, she wrote, sailing through words and pages and scenes, using "My Shitty First Draft" for a mantra when her internal editor got fractious, pretty much making it up as she went along.  And then she was asked to write a ( Read more... )