“Why is it so important that I pretend to be a Yankee fan, Sue?” I said, trying not to be heard above the din at Yankee stadium. “What difference does it make?” “You can’t pretend!” Sue hissed at me. “Don’t you dare tell anyone in my family that you’re pretending. I don’t want to give [...]
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Take me out of this ballgame (new fiction)
Posted in Fiction, tagged baseball, fiction, Linkedin, personal, romance, short story on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Brevity Is the Soul of…What?
Posted in Words & Writing, tagged brevity, Civil War, Facebook, language, Lincoln, Linkedin, McClellan, MySpace, social media, style, telegram, telegraph, texting, Tumblr, Twitter, words, writing, Yammer on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post was transferred from www.hebner.org This is an addendum to my previous post, in which I gave President Abraham Lincoln most of the credit for the spare writing style used today in Twitter posts (I’ll never get used to calling them “tweets.”) and phone text messages.
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