While scrolling through the TV listings last week (I spent almost as much time looking for something to watch as actually watching), I came upon a new Ken Burns documentary on PBS. (Insert nerd joke here.) I love documentaries, and a Ken Burns doc is an event. Burns is arguably
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mark a rayner: Listicle: Ernest Hemingway’s 5 Surprisingly Easy Rules for Writing
Kill adjectivesMurder your darlingsSlaughter long sentencesExterminate repetitionWhiskey, but only after slaking your bloodlust writing
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Woody Allen’s Hemingway Is Hilarious
If you haven’t seen Midnight in Paris yet (and if so, shame on you), then these quotes from the movie may be mild spoilers. Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and … Continue reading →
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