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The Elements of Style Blog

Essays on life, personal style, the writing process, and the eternal wisdom of Strunk & White.

Anthology: "No Vacancy"
Anthology: "No Vacancy"

“—the knowledge that my days of poring over my edit would come to an end in September 2021 haunted me.

I had to finish. If I couldn't cut the words and finish my novel during a pandemic, would I ever? “

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writing, AnthologyMeryl FranzosOctober 11, 2022 Comment
Anthology: "Limericks, Love Letters, and Turning Forty"
Anthology: "Limericks, Love Letters, and Turning Forty"

“At age eighteen, some forward-thinking adult made us High School Seniors commit some words to paper. It was loosely along the lines of, Where do you see yourself at age 30? But we were told that we could write whatever we wanted, because only we would see what was written, the caveat being, we'd see it when we were thirty years old.”

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Anthology, writingMeryl FranzosOctober 6, 2022Comment
Anthology: "Bridge Freezes Before Road"
Anthology: "Bridge Freezes Before Road"

“Franz Kafka once said, ‘a non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.’”

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writing, AnthologyMeryl FranzosOctober 4, 2022Comment
Anthology: "Year of The Dog"
Anthology: "Year of The Dog"

“Family, however we manage to cobble one together, is the soul of our connection to humanity.”

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AnthologyMeryl FranzosSeptember 29, 2022Comment
Anthology: "Show Don't Tell"

“We've been together, my manuscript and I, just the two of us, for so long now. Five years exactly, and like real love, all I saw were its merits and none of its flaws. So it was time to kick it out of the nest and have someone else read it.”

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Anthology, writingMeryl FranzosSeptember 27, 2022Comment
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