Tag Archives: Melville

Lost In Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Posted on August 12, 2018 by thomasfarley01

Would we be any better in the next life? “We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without … Continue reading →

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Kipling and Long Sentences

Posted on August 30, 2017 by thomasfarley01

Kipling and Long Sentences I prefer short sentences and paragraphs. Think Orwell, or better yet, newspaper columnists like Delaplane (internal link). I am constantly amazed, however, at how writers like Conrad and Kipling and Melville carry off long sentences. This … Continue reading →

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The iStory — A Way to Improve Your Writing?

Posted on April 14, 2017 by thomasfarley01

NarrativeMagazine.com (external link) is promoting a new kind of writing for our too wandering thoughts, a 150-word prose form called an iStory. Here’s how they describe it: An iStory is a short, dramatic narrative, fiction or nonfiction, up to 150 … Continue reading →

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Are Long Paragraphs Dead on The Web?

Posted on October 19, 2016 by thomasfarley01

And what can be done about it? In my efforts to compose sparse and spritely pose I have become afraid of long paragraphs. Such paragraphs on a web page look dense, blocky, and impenetrable . I tend to write no more … Continue reading →

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