Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Harlan Ellison is one of my favorite authors. He’s written HUNDREDS of novels and short stories – he’s one of the most prolific writers to ever put pen to paper. He’s a bit of a wild man too…from his days in the 60s of writing for television to daring L. Ron Hubbard (with Robert Heinlein, [...]
Check this out: http://i.gizmodo.com/5129803/if-you-thought-drunk-dialing-was-bad-try-sleep-emailing-on-ambien A research story on people who do things while on Ambien – including one lady who writes emails. Hell, I can top that – I write software, websites and one morning woke up to find that an essay had gotten about 10,000 hits. It was almost lucid even. In fact, going [...]
The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always and or or; sometimes nor) that precedes the last item in a list of three or more items.
… There is ambiguity about the writer’s parentage, because Ayn Rand and God can be read as in apposition to my parents , leading the reader to believe that the writer refers to Ayn Rand and God as his or her parents .
