Web Find: Top ten style checks for writers

I found this post on Medium by Patrick Dunleavy: “Top Ten Style Checks for PhDs or Creative Nonfiction Writers.”  If you’re a writer in the trenches, many of his ten points might be familiar. Some I was aware of,  just not as he phrased it, like the “Link/Frame/Deliver”

On Revision: Cut It Out

BY CHELSEY CLAMMER       The firehouse burns down. The teacher fails a test. Fahrenheit 451 is a banned book. Reader, meet irony: when an intended meaning is different than the actual meaning, when a situation may end differently than anticipated. The difference between

The Reject Pile is a new daily humor site

Got rejection? New humor site wants your shunned work

If you’re a writer, you’re a reject. It’s your job to send your work into the world and hope someone finds it worthy of sharing with their coveted audience. Most times, they don’t. So what’s a writer to do? Enter The Reject Pile, a new