April 2012
13 posts
Go this way.
(via sarah mattozzi)
endless bathtime
piabramley:
(via salmon salt)
In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying,...
“The punitive “What was I thinking?” became the much more compassionate “What was...”
– Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes, NYTimes Modern Love 