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Posted in Uncategorized by The Word Process on December 7, 2010 Edit This Recently, we had a query from someone who was having trouble writing because so many thoughts were clamoring for attention in his head that he couldn’t figure out which ones to get into words or how. We often have a similar problem: […]
Gerald tiptoed in a northward direction behind the blue, flowered couch across his darkened living room to the far end where the door to the baby’s room was slightly ajar so that his wife could hear if the baby issued the slightest peep which he had been doing several times a night. The baby’s nightlight […]
“Marion doesn’t mean what she says,” a hypothetical book club member asserts in regards to a character in a fictitious book. “She really loves Andrew but she can’t say so.” “Where does it say that in the book?” asks the member of the book club who is also an editor. “Where does it say she […]
Dexter is the eponymous serial killer hero of the Showtime television series. The TV show – the first episode of the fifth season aired Sunday – is fraught with moral ambiguity, note the strange bedfellows “killer” and “hero” applied at one time to the leading character. The serial comma (SC), too, is fraught with ambiguity. […]
(We have to thank a friend on Facebook for pointing out this important observation to us. Yes, yes, as editors we should have starred the day.) Award winning newsletter writer and teacher, Jeff Rubin, – a.k.a. Punctuation Man – established National Punctuation Day (NPD) in 2004. Rubin, who gives school presentations on punctuation and promotes […]
Singing voices are customarily divided into different registers: the head register, and the chest register depending on where the sound seems to be coming from. Thus, if a singer is singing in his or her head voice, the tone will resonate in the head. The chest voice resonates in the chest. The easiest way to […]
By now, everybody knows that Jonathan Franzen’s new novel FREEDOM is out, and speaking for the book club, we can’t wait to read it. In the meantime, we have been mulling over the reviews and the controversy that Franzen inevitably, it seems, excites. Don’t we love it? Is the book “a masterpiece of American fiction” […]
If we weren’t so stodgy, we probably would have picked up the book before. Girlfriends have raved about it. But it wasn’t until our daughter apparently started to live it – traveling to Indonesia and falling head over heels for a South American – that we decided we had to find out what Elizabeth Gilbert’s […]
I’ve just started a Shakespeare class, and I have to be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan. I’ve always had trouble with the roundabout language and all of those references to Ancient Greek mythology. But so far, my class has been far more interesting than anticipated. We’ve just finished up with Titus Andronicus, long […]