(Oh No! It Was Rocket Science t-shirt at the NeatoShop)Debby Witt of the blog VA Viper spotted this article published a year ago in The Atlantic. It refers to a now legendary incident in which a drunken college student a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/19/The-Best-Opening-Paragraph-Ever/What is the connection between The Penguin and cigarettes? What about Doctor Doom and the Man in the Iron Mask? You just might be surprised by what you don't know about your favorite comic book villains and the inspirati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/23/10-Interesting-Inspirations-Behind-Famous-Comic-Book-Villains/I'm not a writer in the conventional sense of the... ...writer in the conventional sense of the term. But writing is an important component of my work. I need to c... ...and I saw it was all rubbish. It was as if I was writing with a gun to my head.”Nicholls threw away...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/13/Write-or-Die-A-Word-Processing-Program-That-Compels-You-to-Keep-Writing/Image Credit: netalloyEveryone these days wants th... ...rocess of what it might take to get some of their writing out there.Or you can use it to flood the world wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/10/How-To-Make-Your-Own-Amazon-Kindle-E-Book-In-Just-Hours/John C. Wright is a commercially successful science fiction novelist. That is an enormously difficult accomplishment. There are many great writers who struggle to get published and then to get published widely enough to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/18/Your-Book-of-Gold/Image credit: Flickr user Leon BrocardAs writers, every one of us on this site try to find words that are a step apart from the most over-used words you often see on the web. Problem is, we have these words programmed in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/15/Synonyms-For-The-96-Most-Commonly-Used-Words-in-English/Writing is not as simple as it may look from the outside.... ...ome people may see sites like Neatorama and think writing is easy and they want to do it, but the truth is,... ...one of twenty remarkable facts about grammar and writing
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/06/The-20-Most-Controversial-Rules-in-the-Grammar-World/Corgis are hot these days, right? What about, like... ...If you’re looking for inspiration for your writing , you should look elsewhere. If you’re looki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/11/The-Worst-Muse/One of the most popular articles of the day is a guide to using commas from Business Insider. The rules are pretty down-to-earth, and the mood is lightened by the duck in most of the examples. But there are always people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/18/13-Rules-For-Using-Commas-Without-Looking-Like-An-Idiot/Peter Jacobs of Business Insider rounded up some o... ...ellent prompts for tests of creative thinking and writing . Here are two examples from the same list:Univers...
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