The difference between oregano and marjoram
The kerbs keeps growing. The oregano and marjoram have tangled up with each other and…fused. And, honestly, I just can’t tell the…
Read moreMonth: January 2011
Beautiful sentences
Included in this week’s links for writers post over at Sterling Editing, is an article by Adam Haslett about beautiful sentences. Sentences…
Read moreMethod writing and Hild tidbits
I spent yesterday afternoon in the seventh century with a teenaged Hild who has just been spurned by her first love, who…
Read moreAud #4?
I got this (and several others like it) last week: hi my name is Lindsay and love love your books and i…
Read moreReaders are customers, not the enemy
From Pat Holt, on Holt Uncensored, comes a blog post which begins with the tale of a rather boorish couple who act…
Read moreSingle malt whiskey chocolates–in honour of Robert Burns
Today is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. People all over the world will be reciting his poetry, eating…
Read moreAnonymous was a woman
Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, explains why Virginia Woolf is right: I would venture to guess that Anon,who…
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