I do hope so. Can’t bloody stand the stuff, particularly the cursive. Anne Trubek: Proclaiming the virtuousness of one way of forming a “j” over others is a trope that occurs throughout handwriting’s history. For instance, early Christians jettisoned Roman scripts they deemed decadent and pagan. In their scriptoria, monks developed Uncial to replace Roman [...]
For those of you who don’t know – and there’s no reason, perhaps, that you should – DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it is a technology by which content distributors (record companies, for the most part) attempt to control how a customer experiences their product. Now, audiobooks. The starting pistol for Internet-distributed audiobooks [...]
There is an emerging genre of what might be called the minimalist word processor (cf. Scrivener, Write Room). These applications are designed to cut away visual distraction and leave the screen looking somewhat like a plain sheet of paper in a typewriter (or, if that’s too far back for you, then looking like an old [...]
James Burt, in reference to his own post on Literature Network about writing workshops, says: At the moment I don’t feel comfortable with writing workshops, but I know my writing has improved in the past through many of the talented people I have workshopped with. That goes for me, too. The piece makes several good [...]
Reader, it has been a long day. I spent the early part of this morning prepping for two hours of seminars on multiple regression (if you don’t know what this is, you don’t want to; if you do know what this, you probably still don’t want to), and this afternoon was whittled away prepping for [...]