July 2012
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“If it were all a party, the periods would be by the bar, drinking whiskeys and...”
– Steve Macone on why everyone uses too many exclamation points!!!
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“Most people say, “Show, don’t tell,” but I stand by Show and Tell, because when...”
– Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing. Also: “Don’t fall in love with the gentle trilling of your mellifluous sentences.”
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“At their best, nominalizations help us express complex ideas: perception,...”
– Helen Sword on “Zombie Nouns”
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“The Internet hasn’t given me a thick skin, because I already had one. I think...”
– Elspeth Reeve, at the Atlantic Wire, on how the Internet has brought out our inner eighth grade girl.
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On Autostraddle: Best Lesbian Titles Under $5 →
I think I really just wanted to talk a little more about lesbian pulp fiction.
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Impossible Colours
A note on impossible colours, via petitchou, lists several from fiction:
-In 1927, H.P. Lovecraft wrote a short story called “The Colour Out of Space” in which a meteorite crashed into a family farm in rural New England. The meteorite contained a mysterious globule of a color that was “almost impossible to describe,” with a note that it was “only by analogy” that professors studying the globule...
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“Last year, Gigaom published a flattering story in which they used me as an...”
– John Green’s tumblr: Radiohead wouldn’t exist without early major-label funding. The future won’t bring new Radioheads. All I want to say here, truly, is: let’s get used to it.
Don’t believe anyone who tries to convince you that DIY everything is the future. Related.
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“It no longer occurs to me to query the use of four-letter words, even when they...”
– Mary Norris, on copy editing poorly-written tweets, profanity, and “activating” hyphens.
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“I’d been taught about the breakdowns of butch lesbians: studs, bois, stems,...”
– Becca Dickerson, “Peeling Back The Labels: ‘Femme’ By Default.”
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“A pencil of lines
An erudition of editors
A rumpus of shapes
A madder of...”
– James Lipson, in An Exaltation of Larks.
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“The most objectionable characteristic of 1950s pulp novels is that the lesbians...”
– Joke Hermes, in “Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction.”
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“Long before I knew what a reporter was, I read history with this passionate...”
– Adela Rogers St. Johns, in The Honeycomb. 