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A life 'laced with code' … Tom McCarthy's desktop I don't have a desktop image. It's best to write against nothing, rather than something.
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Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview , Hem replied, "Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with."I have set off each rule (and its examples) by drawing a line beneath it, before beginning to explain the next rule. I understand that most people do not want to read long articles about grammar and usage, so I have broken this down into bite-sized pieces. You can tackle the explanations all at once, or read only one section at a time, as the spirit moves you. ~ I . A SEMICOLON IS END-STOP PUNCTUATION.
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Homeric simile , also called an epic simile or extended simile , is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length. The word "Homeric" is based on the Greek author, Homer , who composed the two famous Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey . Many authors continue to use this type of simile in their writings.
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How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
Note: This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave yesterday at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. It’s a simple list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was in college. All advice is autobiographical. It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
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