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by aaron5 5y ago
Those headers are a biscuit(<-euphemism).
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by aaron5 5y ago
what an interesting question! i'm trying to think of another example...
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by aaron5 5y ago
When I talk about writing I call this a bump-bump, a quick pairing of ideas; good ones often exhibit parallelism in syntax or sound. To be, or not to be (parallel contrast, Hamlet) light of my life, love of my loins (allteration, Lolita) Ri
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by aaron5 5y ago
I have one that I think helps - of course I made it up, so I'm biased. Take a passage from a book you think is written well. For each sentence, ask yourself what, in your own terminology, the sentence is doing - what's the funct
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by aaron5 5y ago
'designed (apparently) by unregenerate misanthropes' haha! I try to keep myself to one complaint or less per day, and ten cuss-words or less per day. The days I break my cuss-word quota are the days I use the microwave.
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by aaron5 5y ago
I don't know what Jupyter is, but I want to throw my dollar into your #2 hat - that's what I think makes the difference. I've earned paychecks teaching and presenting for more than ten years, and the powerpoint is just passiv
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by aaron5 5y ago
I was recently reading Nietzsche and I'm sorry I won't quote him correctly, but he said something like this: that the weak would use their weakness as an insidious power, to control, to manipulate, to coerce, to bully; it was all
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Show HN: English Writing for Advanced English Learners(paaronmitchell.com)
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by aaron5 5y ago
Really glad to hear that! And writing that piece for The Atlantic is a fine accomplishment, too. I read somewhere (or internalized) something like: great mythologies are full of good humor. I love how his opening paragraph is of angst so re
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by aaron5 6y ago
https://dimepages.com You get 2 or 3 free looks at Creator X's stuff each day; you pay 10¢ for all Creator X's stuff for 24 hours. In return, no ads, no tracking, etc. Hopefully will help journalists, web-artists, writ
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by aaron5 6y ago
Maybe I should have posted this when I first submitted, but... The history of writing is in ink. The static page encloses the writer to his audience. But what if his audience is broader, wittier, funnier, smarter, or sexier than its central
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by aaron5 6y ago
Hey! Thanks so much for taking a look at that! I don't know what to do with it, so even your little comment helps - it was a fun weekend project, and I think the technique itself (nested writing) is strong for the future. But who wants
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Show HN: Write For Your Reader, a weekend project for nested writing(paaronmitchell.com)
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