Beautiful multilingual eye examination chart of the early 1900s San Francisco
112 years ago, optometry was a growing profession. In diverse cities like San Francisco, however, the eye chart commonplace in western countries today could not suffice.
Watch out for poisonous books
If you care about history, when handling precious old print books and documents you wear gloves (not cotton) to protect it from your skin oils. Now here’s another reason.
If you want to write a novel that’s literary as fuck
Then here are some tips from the fucking great Suzanne Reisman.
On Valerian
I generally don’t like to post negative reviews. What’s the point? So let me say right off that I did not hate the movie. It just left me feeling flat. I want to understand why. As a writer, I want to avoid these mistakes.
From my work blog: What’s a rule and what is just style: Using italics for direct thought in fiction
Aside from writing, I do book design, layout, and editing for others. This is my first post on the new site that touches on writing rules vs. “rules”—important considerations when you’re editing someone else’s prose.
Something I often have to remind myself as a writer
A book (or short story or painting or movie or any creative work) comes to life and dies several times over.
A first-person narration aspect often overlooked
The story and the telling of the story are two different things.
Free Mabel!
[Update: Kindle book will be free again on April 13–14, 2018.] To outsiders, she may seem like a nice older …