You’ve probably heard people say “You have to know the rules before you can break them.” For a long time I wasn’t sure what that meant, not until I realized I had been doing exactly that. Here are some rules about breaking rules.
Which words do you prefer to write?
– Women or Female?
– Know or Believe?
– A Historic or An Historic?
– First or Firstly?
It’s possible you’ve got some learnin’ to do.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Zuckerberg. “This is not what I had in mind when I started this. If that’s what you want, go back to Myspace. Start a blog. Get a life.”
It seems that the obligatory thing to do after being Freshly Pressed is to write a post about being Freshly Pressed. This would be that. Here. Of now. I could add, subtract, and determine the number of added followers, but it would seem boastful to write that I climbed from 800-something to 1,200-something in about…
There was likely a moment, and a table, at which sat writer Will Reiser and producers at Summit Entertainment, and someone had to say, “It’s about a guy whose girlfriend cheats on him, his father has Alzheimer’s, and he gets cancer.” And at some point, someone else had to lean forward in a chair, maybe…
For many years/films I completely disliked Will Ferrell on screen because it seemed that he played every role with the same over-the-top hyper-enthusiasm (see: Old School, Semi Pro, Step Brothers, Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights, most SNL appearances). But when Jon Favreau directed him in Elf, Ferrell showed that – with the right director – there was…
If I told you that Sam (Jared Gilman), a man in uniform, was in love with Suzy (Kara Haywood), a woman who lived in a lighthouse on the edge of a New England island, and they were going to run away together until a hurricane approached, you would say, “Don’t we have enough crappy Nicolas…
Every Wednesday Roger Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt challenging writers to create a 100-word story, poem, or whatever works for you. After posting your work on your blog, go back to her site and add your link on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. Please read the notes after the story. It’s important. Well, to me, because it’s my 500th…
Every Wednesday Roughskin Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you. After you post your work on your blog, go back to her site and add a link to your post on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. I’m going to try to keep up with…
So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment. But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. “I dunno, Phil. I think your tip expectations are a little too high.” ______________________________
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