James McDonald has started a long thread about how to write at this URL:

http://pub43.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm3.showMessageRange?topicID=257.topic&start=1&stop=20

If you have any interest in the nuts and bolts of writing, this is a super thing to read. I disagree with him in a few places -- no surprise, every writer has their own techniques that seem obvious to them but not necessarily to others -- but by and large, this is a wonderful gathering-together of a whole lot of useful information in one place. Take a look.

-- DD

Yeah, I love that thread, although I think I'm still more enamored of Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light "Slushkiller" thread.

Thanks, this is interesting reading. Of course, I got sidetracked by the link to the Bulwer-Lytton site, since I hadn't yet seen last year's winners :-)

This, in turn, made me get around to putting a web page up to commemorate what I consider to be the worst run-on sentence I have ever seen, made particularly funny by the fame of the author. (No, I won't give that away in advance of the sentence itself.) It was written in 1846, so I don't expect any possible copyright issues for posting it, but "just in case", to keep the responsibility mine, I'll link to it on my own site rather than post the whole thing here.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerw7979/sentence.htm

Ardub
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Wow, thanks. H'mmm...looks like I have some reading to do, but I'll to read anything that might help me out. I already skimmed the firt few pages. It sounds interesting.

Calliope, the muse of poetry and song

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Just a quick post here. There is a lot of good information on McDonald's site, but I think the best advice that can begiven is simply: Write! No matter how you start the process, once you start, it's like doing a wizardry, the "Spell" of Writing takes you and doesn't let go until it's finished. Something wonderful comes out of you and there's an intense joy in realizing that it's not the destination that matters, but the journey.

I am on errantry and I greet you. Dai!