Here’s a classic from Stephen Fry with lots of punny fun and English silliness to celebrate Halloween:
Tag: Halloween
Oct 30
Ten better ways to say: scary
Happy Halloween! I hope you experience (and survive) something suitably spine-chilling. nightmarish ghastly frightful formidable unnerving horrendous horrifying hair-rising eerie perturbing Revisit ten better ways to say: afraid to plan your response!
Oct 28
More Halloween costumes for writers and editors
Page Count/Countess: Starting with a standard Count/Countess Dracula look, complete with sash and medals, add pages torn (or lovingly cut) from a secondhand paperback novel to the cape using safety pins. Footnotes: Keep it simple by attaching yellow ‘post-it’ notes to your shoe laces by punching a hole in each sheet and threading them …
Oct 30
Halloween costumes for writers and editors: #2
The serial comma! Not all style guides see the need, but that final comma can keep the author’s meaning clear. For a costume, trace the outline of a large comma on the front of an old, solid-color T-shirt then use a glue gun to attach breakfast cereal (Kellogg’s Froot Loops, Post Alpha-bits, etc.) inside. Voilà, …
Oct 18
Halloween costumes for writers and editors: #1
What really makes an editor’s skin crawl? Dangling modifiers! Become a writer/editor’s worst nightmare with a simple home-made costume. Print creepy modifiers on index cards, and attach them with 6- to-18 inch bits of yarn to your sleeves, hair, belt, etc. Some possibilities: Despite the pool of warm blood on the floor, To ensure the …