Re: stringer, Blogging and decent money

**G* R* <g*@tiscali.co.uk>**

One beacon of light in this dark world is The Plantsman magazine 
published by the RHS... for whom I'm writing a piece on brunneras - 
2,500 words. Their pay rate is not outstanding but at least they do 
allow space.

Graham

>Betty, that phrase hit home. Short and twittery is a hard style to  learn.
>More accurately, one might say, writing in English is hard to UNlearn.
>Like anything else, it's interesting to track back and try to pinpoint  where
>such things began. Text messaging -- sorry, texting -- is an obvious 
>influence on today's truncated prose. But did it begin with USA Today, where 
>everything had to be reduced to a few phrases and hardly any stories 
>were  permitted
>to jump to an inside page? Did the national attention span begin to  shrink
>when MTV begat vertigo-inducing jump-cut editing? Or were those just  symptoms
>of a trend we were ready for, primed for by the ever-increasing 
>demands  on our
>eyes and ears?
>The sentence is dead. Long live the bullet point.
>
>--  JF in snowbound Lanc. Co. PA . Snowing all night and the  first plow
>finally went by just a minute ago.
>
>In a message dated 2/28/2009 8:54:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>BettyMackey@verizon.net writes:
>
>Everything old must be rewritten in the short new twittery  style.
>
>-- Betty Mackey
>
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