On Writing of Wrongs
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
Here is my journal which I kept from October 5 to December 21, edited for readability, followed by periodic commentary.
Sometime over the last 25-30 years, I’ve heard someone say that I wasn’t a good writer and it was said in the most emotionally damaging way.
There are folks paid to write, and readers paying to read, much less than what Ordinary Times has produced daily for over a decade now.
Lessig is suing because he made multiple points in his article and the NYT made a headline out of only one of them and it wasn’t the most important point he made.
This was a strong year for Ordinary Times, with contributions from many different authors. It included strong debuts from new voices and dynamite content from our regular contributors
The ability to write, not only in the formal sense of being able to succinctly put together an argument but also in a more informal sense, is an underrated and overlooked skill.
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
Old poetry is laden with the baggage of centuries of hidden metaphor and archaic references. New poetry is prone to abstraction and whimsical laziness. But poetry deserves our consideration as an art form nonetheless. After all, all the music we love is poetry, and all the fun little things we can do with language are best done in poetic form.
Submitted for your consideration, a candidate for the “unlikely sentence exemplar” award.
I see that this is a thing now. I can’t articulate a good objection to it.
But that doesn’t mean I can’t still be grumpy about it.
The legal writing in Obergefell v. Hodges is both a model and a caution for future writers, especially those who, like lawyers, would write to persuade.
Burt Likko’s contrarian friend offers a counterpoint to our front pager’s well-known dislike of Twitter as a medium of expression.