Robin Harford
@robin
Still learning to write.
Robin Harford
robinharford.com
Stop trying to write like a “serious” author. The world has enough stiff, self-important writing. Loosen up. Make a joke. Break a rule. Start a sentence with “and.” Great writing isn’t about sounding like literature—it’s about sounding like life. And life is messy, chaotic, and alive. Let your pages breathe.
Lucas James
When writing rules interfere with capturing the living, always-changing, ever-moving luminous thread that is being followed, when they interfere with the conveyance of meaning, with what must be said, then the rules of grammar must be abandoned. Humans created them, any human can break them. With impunity. Ultimately, there are no inviolable rules
... See moreALEXANDERS.--This plant is the Smyrnium olustratum of science, and is
used in this country in the same way in which celery is. It is a native
of Great Britain, and is found in its wild state near the seacoast. It
received its name from the Italian "herba Alexandrina," and is supposed
to have been originally brought from Alexandria; but, be this as it
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