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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/8

    There's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:

    sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-cit

    8/

    #strunkandwhite #elementsofstyle #turkeycitylexicon
  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/8

    There's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:

    sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-cit

    8/

    #strunkandwhite #elementsofstyle #turkeycitylexicon
  3. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/8

    There's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:

    sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-cit

    8/

    #strunkandwhite #elementsofstyle #turkeycitylexicon
  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/8

    There's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:

    sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-cit

    8/

    #turkeycitylexicon #elementsofstyle #strunkandwhite
  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/8

    There's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:

    sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-cit

    8/

    #strunkandwhite #elementsofstyle #turkeycitylexicon
  6. रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew) @[email protected] ·

    What a delightfully-irreverent guide to #writing in #English - if you're a fan of #PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage by #GeorgeOrwell or of the #ElementsOfStyle by #StrunkAndWhite, brace yourself:

    "How To Write English Prose", The Lamp (thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-t).

    #Style #StyleGuide

    #writing #english #politicsandtheenglishlanguage #georgeorwell #elementsofstyle #strunkandwhite
  7. रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew) @[email protected] ·

    What a delightfully-irreverent guide to #writing in #English - if you're a fan of #PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage by #GeorgeOrwell or of the #ElementsOfStyle by #StrunkAndWhite, brace yourself:

    "How To Write English Prose", The Lamp (thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-t).

    #Style #StyleGuide

    #writing #english #politicsandtheenglishlanguage #georgeorwell #elementsofstyle #strunkandwhite
  8. रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew) @[email protected] ·

    What a delightfully-irreverent guide to #writing in #English - if you're a fan of #PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage by #GeorgeOrwell or of the #ElementsOfStyle by #StrunkAndWhite, brace yourself:

    "How To Write English Prose", The Lamp (thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-t).

    #Style #StyleGuide

    #writing #english #politicsandtheenglishlanguage #georgeorwell #elementsofstyle #strunkandwhite