Posts Tagged ‘writing’

The annual Lyttle Lytton Contest challenges entrants to write the world’s most atrocious first line to a novel, and this year’s winners have been announced. My favourites being: I know who the murderer is, Kevin blogged. and Now, you’re all aware of my vocal campaign against the global slave trade, so what I am about [...]

Just popped over to the Guardian’s web site for a quick browse of the latest headlines, when I noticed a tiny link right at the bottom of the page — Style guide. Curious, I clicked and found it was a writing-style guide for the paper’s writers and editors, full of rather interesting stuff. For example: [...]