EDITOR@WORK: Ben Franklin

THAT EXTRA 'K': I always assumed that Ben Franklin's famous book was Poor Richard's Almanac. It's not. He spelled it 'Poor Richard's Almanack.' For some reason, the 'k' has been lost over the years.

BOOK IT, DANO: Here's a resource for book publishing.

HYPHEN? A lot of newspapers say that so-and-so is going to the playoffs for the third-straight year. I don't think you need that hyphen.

APOSTROPHE, DANO: I just saw a story that talked about the Dolphin's Dan Marino. Actually, he was the Dolphins' Dan Marino.

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MORE EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

BLOG ENTRIES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

Sunday, August 2, 2009

All over the place

Rambling man: I was reading a NY Times story on comedian/actor Tom Arnold and the writer said, "He told a discursive story..." I'd never heard of discursive, so, naturally, I looked it up.

dis·cur·sive
Pronunciation: \dis-ˈkər-siv\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discursus, past participle of discurrere to run about — more at discourse
Date: 1598

1 a: moving from topic to topic without order : rambling b: proceeding coherently from topic to topic2: marked by analytical reasoning3: of or relating to discourse
— dis·cur·sive·ly adverb
— dis·cur·sive·ness noun

Yes, that sounds like Tom Arnold; but in a good way.

Special blog: You might check out the highly visual but very verbal blog of Maira Kalman; it appears on the NY Times web site. So far, I've read a lot about two of my heroes, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin.

Who would have imagined that I'd get Tom Arnold, Ben Franklin and Mr. Jefferson in one blog entry?

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