Tag Archives: writing

Saving ourselves from tired holiday metaphors

By Michael Becker | Published: December 1, 2009
The holidays are so pregnant with symbolism, history and metaphors that it’s sometimes hard to avoid writing cliches into your stories. That’s why former Baltimore Sun copyeditor John McIntyre provides us with this lovely list of things we should avoid putting into print around the holidays. As McIntyre puts it: Some readers (and, sadly, some [...]
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Blogs and Web logs

By Michael Becker | Published: November 24, 2009
John Naughton, on the difference between writing for Web and writing for print: The other difference between writing for print and writing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘finished’ and dispatched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a [...]
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