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Book Funny

How about some old-timey erotic literature?

Today’s world is full of nostalgia.

Everywhere you look, people are yearning for “the good old days”, such as when kids could play in the woods all day without supervision. When you could eat undercooked meat or seafood without a care in the world.

And when writers were writers.  When books were, well, real BOOKS instead of this electronic crap.

Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky

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How to Contact a Prison Inmate (and not just any random prisoner…)

Remember when you would go off to summer camp and you’d all spend the most awesome summer together and then you go home promising to write each other every day, and then you end up with a PEN PAL FOR LIFE?

Too Much Joy: Cereal Killers
Too Much Joy: Cereal Killers

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10 Tips on How to Write Good

Writing well will get you through much of life.

If we could go back in time to take our middle school, high school, or even college classes again, we might be tempted to take more writing courses. Or at least pay attention a bit more in class.

The ability to write well is the cornerstone of communication, even when you’re looking at 140-character limitations on your latest tweet.  To compose the ideal tweet, knowing how to write is vital – or else you’re just going to look like any other crazy Twitter user.

The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well
The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well

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How to interpret your handwriting

Do you have sloppy handwriting, or nun-sactioned perfect script?

Some people — doctors, famously – have some of the worst handwriting on the planet.  Some say it’s because they are so busy that they don’t have time to write a perfect note to the pharmacist or in your chart.  Others say it’s just sheer laziness.

Handwriting Analysis
Handwriting Analysis

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How well do you write? Here’s one way to tell if your writing sucks

As Web Watch has previously pointed out, knowing how to write – and to write well – is a skillset that everybody should take the time to improve upon.

English class in college or high school may not have been interesting, but in hindsight, it was probably one of the few classes where you should have paid a bit more attention than you had.

Being able to write intelligently, in a way that others find interesting, on any number of topics – is not easy.  Web Watch has always been told that one should write like one talks.  Try not to write above your normal speech pattern, or the resulting text will just sound stilted and unnatural.

Hemingway — again, as Web Watch has said — had it right.  Don’t use six words when five words will do.  Summarize.  Rewrite.  Condense.   Your readers will thank you for this.