The New York Times's readers seem to be into instruction these days, whether in philosophy, drawing, or, now, writing.
I am not equipped to advise in any but the last category. However, I just read the first few blog posts in the NYT wherein commenters were instructed to send in a description of the sky.
Check it out: 279 or something comments.
I almost barfed, to paraphrase Santorum. (He wasn't talking about descriptions of the sky, but about JFK's separation of church and state speech.)
Can you do better? I mean, about descriptions of the sky. The What's in the Truck contest seems to have waned like a fingernail moon.
Hint: Adjectives and adverbs should be used really, really sparingly! Or I will make Big Fun of you!
fair warning: on block island or manhattan or in missouri, we can be a little salty
...something I've always looked up to.
ReplyDelete[And if a preposition must be hung (hanged) in the descriptive process, so be it. Writing is blood. Blood is writing.]
Ha ha!
ReplyDeleteGrammar be hanged.
No, thank you.
ReplyDelete20 some odd years of school assignments were quite enough.
Never again.
PS I can't seem to leave a name on this anymore.
PS Dada sends in this fab letters site, inckluding a little writing advice from CS Lewis with which I heartily concur.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/04/c-s-lewis-on-writing.html
Apparently the contest thing isn't going over at all in any way shape or form. So I will try to stick to making outrageous remarks that people will take issue with.
ReplyDeleteOr just post pix.
I can't do all the heavy lifting here!
Excuse me? I believe at least one participant did enter.
ReplyDeleteOne entry, one prize.
What should the prize be?
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ReplyDeletemy father the New Yorker Editor always said...ENOUGH with the adjective and adverbs!! and so I became a painter...a picture is worth ...NO words
ReplyDeleteAs a former LIFE-er, I can say that some pictures are worth 1,000 words, others—NOT!
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