Whilst some of the fiction ‘zines I send material to like RTFs, most want the work in .doc files. Nasty, big files, these .doc things, full of proprietary standards and hidden commands.
Why? Because they want my fucking revision history, they want to be able to revoke all the carefully crafted editorial changes I made to [...]
Entries from May 2003
They Like to Pollute the Internet
May 24th, 2003 No Comments
Tags: On Writing Fiction
English
May 5th, 2003 No Comments
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.”
–James D. Nicoll
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