#writing (74 links)
- Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging refactoringenglish.com
- Harper: The Private Grammar Checker writewithharper.com
Harper is a free, open-source grammar checker designed to be just right. Think of it as the private alternative to Grammarly, built after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.
- Don’t let AI kill the author economist.com
- What AI has in common with dogs economist.com
Back when dog technology was first being developed, it was far from obvious that it was safe for people—who were literally inviting wolves into their caves. They had to train them not to eat babies. Thousands of years later, dogs still sometimes escape and go rogue. But overall, people are happy with how things have worked out. (It did not end so well for the Neanderthals.)
Great analogy.
- RIP Claude randsinrepose.com
- How to spot AI writing economist.com
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
- Text as Music jeravalue.com
Paste or write anything below. Each sentence is highlighted by its length so you can see the rhythm of your prose — a wall of one colour is monotony; a healthy mix is music.
- Guide to Punctuation - University of Sussex sussex.ac.uk
More general than the title suggests.
For the sugggested re-reading order:
* Thousand Autumns * Cloud Atlas * Utopia Avenue * Black Swan Green * Ghostwritten * Number9Dream * The Bone Clocks * Slade House
- Make better documents. - Anil Dash anildash.com
We almost never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I'm gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes that this helps you get your messages across more effectively.
Round robin letters allow relationships to survive the distances and distractions of modern life. They are the friendship equivalent of a mid-ranking CIA official visiting Beijing for talks: they can pave the way for a proper meeting.
- Is the Latest Daredevil Shake-Up a Sign Marvel TV Will Be ‘Born Again’ — Again? | Rotten Tomatoes editorial.rottentomatoes.com
- The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami thenation.com
His readers might recognize his signature touches—affectless narration, illogical plot turns, strangely dispassionate sexual encounters, all brought to life via a suite of signifiers with an unarticulated personal meaning, such as the many references to music, baseball, cats, cooking, and so on—but they belong to Murakami. (That said, the English novelist David Mitchell’s Number9Dream comes thrillingly close to Murakami, maybe the most successful work of literary fan fiction ever published.)
- Diátaxis Framework diataxis.fr
The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
- The Breeders: Pod Album Review | Pitchfork pitchfork.com
Always worth revisiting.
- FAQs: why we don’t have them - Government Digital Service gds.blog.gov.uk
Old-ish but gold-ish.
- errata.ai errata.ai
Workflow and QA automation for collaborative writing.
- Get started | Learning Synths learningsynths.ableton.com
Via infovore.
- How Watership Down was written 1843magazine.com
- Ulysses and other apps for writing (22 Dec., 2015, at Interconnected) interconnected.org
A quick plug for the Mac app Ulysses which has totally upended my writing workflow in the last few months. Brilliant -- the first tool I've found that fits the…
I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of…
- What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon' opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
- The limits of nature writing | TLS the-tls.co.uk
RICHARD SMYTH Does too much modern nature writing bear ‘the smudges of the writers’ desperate groping for the mot juste ’? A Northern goshawk (Accipiter…
- HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com
I basically now have both the simplest and most sophisticated multi-language ebook production and distribution setup on the planet.
Beautiful, if you like this sort of thing.
I write margin notes while reading books. They help me keep my thoughts on record and within context. But how do I do that on a website or an ebook?
- SublimeWritingStyle github.com
Highlight "weasel words" and passive voice as you write in Sublime Text.
Via ttscoff.
Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.
Write better with a simple markdown editor, version control and easy collaboration tools.
- Thoreau 2.0 - XOXO Conference Talk static.pinboard.in
I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.
- Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers brainpickings.org
- Lacuna Books lacunabooks.com
Lacuna Books is an application designed specially for writing books, research papers, and technical writings. It helps you manage content more effectively and produces beautiful digital books.
Via tomtaylor.
- Publish What You Learn | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
The collaboration on apps like GitHub should be exactly what happens on blog posts. The readers posting comments should read the entire article, and should offer constructive, polite criticism and suggestions, without any unnecessary negativity.
- inessential.com: Pub Rules inessential.com
I’d love to run, edit, and write for a publication bigger than just me and my blog. I don’t have time, so I won’t, at least not any time soon. But if I were to run a publication, I’d have a few rules.
Via infovore.
- SUPERINTEND superintend.typepad.com
- schacon/git-scribe - GitHub github.com
basically the best way to write an ebook