What the Strunk 'n' White are you talking about?

[dreamer_easy]

"Many references have been made in this book to "the reader," who has been much in the news. It is now necessary to warn you that your concern for the reader must be pure: you must sympathize with the reader's plight (most readers are in trouble about half the time) but never seek to know the reader's wants. Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living."

Comments

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

I still hate them. They made University h*ll as far as writing anything.

I think they are already dead or I'd look them up and do terrible things to them.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I once saw Oxford University's equivalent handbook. It sounds as though your uni teachers whapped you about the head and shoulders with the Little Book, but I tell you if you'd been at Oxford they'd have killed you!