Links for the Thinking Writer

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

• Mr. Neches, the 55-year-old New York City Transit marketing manager, learned them, before graduating from Tilden High School and Brooklyn College, where he majored in English and later received a master’s degree in creative writing ... Louis Menand, an English professor at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker, pronounced the subway poster’s use of the semicolon to be “impeccable.”

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Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer

• Perfect your writing style by following the habits of great writers, especially with regards to scheduling.

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“Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.” - Lewis Thomas