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The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
a personal parenthesis
at 23 i left home, not just the house i lived in but the country i lived in, to pursue an abstract "better life".
i wasn't sure what it would look like, but a new job gave me a ticket out and i took it with the full confidence that in about 5 years i would know what was actually next in my life. a stepping stone into a five
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Remakes That Had The Same Director As The Original
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⌛️ Wed, Feb 26
"everyone's a little autistic" can be a trigger phrase for a lot of autistic people; it undermines or outright invalidates their lived experience.
yet the punchline is that some accomodations made by and for autistic+neurodivergent people can be and have been proven to be beneficial to allistic+neurotypical people as well.
so, from
... See more"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Good writing is specific and concrete.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn
Through movies that make the unthinkable enjoyable, wrote Sontag in her 1965 essay The Imagination of Disaster, “one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities and the destruction of humanity itself”. Contemplating annihilation can certainly be a valuable means of reckoning with death, loss,
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