Two Spaces After a Period is Wrong.
“What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. It’s their certainty that they’re right.” -Farhad Manjoo, Slate A couple of years ago, I noticed something funny in a document a friend had written. It looked horrible. It took me a moment to figure out what it was. And then a floodgate opened up somewhere [...]
The Rules of Writing: Vonnegut v. Wilder
These two men, Author Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions) and Screenwriter Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot), are two very different writers who wrote in two very different mediums. But in their lives, both men offered some of the best and most concise advice on writing that I’ve [...]