Monthly Archives: November 2013
The Best – and Worst – Places to Write
When it’s time to do a bit of writing that serves the purpose of satiating our more creative outlets, we often think about escaping. The thought process likely has to do with removing ourselves from the more familiar places in our lives—where we know the sort of distractions that occur—and setting up to write in…
Calling Out Crappy Design
Here’s a Reddit site on Calling out crappy design. It’s a largely humorous site where you can check out others’ submissions of poor designs and submit your own. It’s is easily to get lost and spend way too much time here.
G is for Gerund
One of my biggest causes in professional and other writing is to remove virtually all passive voice (yes, yes, there ARE some times when it is intentional and correct), so I often remove gerunds to fix sentences. However, there are other considerations with the gerund than the effort to make sentences precise and active. Here…