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And we shall call this “Moff’s Law”
In the comments to Annalee Newitz excellent io9 post on racial fantasies in Avatar (and other works of sci-fi), Moff, another io9 contributor created one of the best rants I have ever read on the nature of critique: What do you think?
Poem Starters and Creative Writing Ideas
Here are lots of poem starters that you can use for your own poetry writing. (If you're looking for story starters instead, click here) .
Image from Flickr by Lazurite This is not particularly relevant to the post, but I’m getting an awful lot of comments telling me, often a little snarkily, “it’s ‘THAT’ not ‘WHICH’”. The “don’t use which for restrictive clauses” rule comes (as far as I can tell) from Strunk and White.
Eight Secrets Which Writers Won’t Tell You