mavis will save us

• 2012-04-07

  Blue Lines Revisited: Grim Realisation

  tomewing:

  gleaned from following Longreads for a while: there’s a generic style/technique to longform writing which annoys me, a patina of “good writing” tricks which is hard to pin down but becomes more obvious the more “great pieces” you read. Eg this ending on a NYT piece about games:

  Lantz told me…

  It’s clear we’re in a longreads bubble! Bloated NYT features are this year’s mortgage-backed CDOs. Call your broker and tell them to put all your money in cat .gifs!

  Source: tomewing

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      I apparently hearted this post at some point in the past (presumably when Tom posted it originally), and because I can’t...

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      I like this in fiction! I find it weird when writers describe real people this way, though. I buy the “constant” but not...

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      i dug up this post and then realized, to my horror, i neither reblogged or hearted it at the time??? it’s like one of...

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      It’s clear we’re...longreads bubble! Bloated NYT features are this year’s mortgage-backed...

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  32. cureforbedbugs said: Tom, the universe is telling you to write the book-length ELBOWS parody. “That’s it,” he said, taking a final sip of tea. “Elbows. Elbows all the way down.”
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