Some useful links
Yes, I’ve been absent for a while. Some paying projects were taking up my time, so something had to give (and that something is NOT going to be my family).
Anyway, things are calming down a bit, so I’m working on a book review (the book is on using e-mail effectively) that I’ll be posting in a day or so. In the meantime, here are some useful links:
- A headline can make the difference between your audience reading the rest of your piece or passing it over as irrelevant. Here’s a quick guide to writing great headlines. (Via Lifehacker.)
- Do you need to write for a Spanish-speaking audience? Take a look at the U.S. Government’s “Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries for U.S. Government Web Sites.” You might find something that makes your job easier. (Via The New Legal Writer.)
- Few people spend much time thinking about onomatopoeia — mostly because they have no idea what it is. It refers to those words whose sound is very like what they refer to, like thud or buzz. Garr Reynolds has a nice riff on taking advantage of onomatopoeia to emphasize a point. Reynolds is writing in terms of oral presentations, but the principle applies in writing as well.
Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 01:23PM
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Roy Jacobsen
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