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The series of posts that collect the best of the month published on the blog continues. For November I have chosen six articles this time, and not five as for the other months, which in my opinion offer food for thought and analysis, always included in the list in chronological order. Writing tools There was a time when scribes of infinite patience armed themselves with parchment, quill pen and ink and, hunched over the desk, created true works of art. Then the biro was invented, parchment was replaced by bleached and lighter paper and writing, at least as an action, became easier. Continue reading the article Writing tools . Is it or Is it? Or the confusion between apostrophes and accents The Italian language is not only made up of words, but also of signs, which interrupt and punctuate, which imply and reiterate.
They are the apostrophes and the accents. They are a part of our written language and also our spoken language. They are the choreography of writing. Continue reading the article Is it or Is it? . Bernard Special Data Cornwell: the story becomes a novel blockquote>I've read a lot of Bernard Cornwell. The first time I purchased the five volumes of the Excalibur saga. Then it was the turn of one of his lucky characters, Richard Sharpe, an English soldier at the time of Napoleon. I bought Sharpe's The Riflemen and from that day on I devoured everything Cornwell published in Italy. Continue reading the article Bernard Cornwell: the story becomes a novel . Give a book as a gift I have asked myself several times whether it is useful to give a book as a gift. And once again I take inspiration from the rich blog of Ferruccio Gianola who wrote The most wrong book I received as a gift.
Because, after all, this sentence condenses what I think about gifted books. Continue reading the article Giving a book as a gift . When to use capital letters (and when not) I often find articles online with excessive use of capital letters. An abuse of capital letters. Going back in time, to elementary school, I remember that they taught me that capital letters should be used for proper and geographical names, certainly not for objects, nouns and the like. Continue reading the article When to use capital letters (and when not to) . How to write a 300 word short story On the occasion of the competition organized by the Scheletri.com website, 300 words for a nightmare, to which a short story of 300 words maximum can be sent, I had the idea of writing this article to give some suggestions on writing a story of this brevity .
They are the apostrophes and the accents. They are a part of our written language and also our spoken language. They are the choreography of writing. Continue reading the article Is it or Is it? . Bernard Special Data Cornwell: the story becomes a novel blockquote>I've read a lot of Bernard Cornwell. The first time I purchased the five volumes of the Excalibur saga. Then it was the turn of one of his lucky characters, Richard Sharpe, an English soldier at the time of Napoleon. I bought Sharpe's The Riflemen and from that day on I devoured everything Cornwell published in Italy. Continue reading the article Bernard Cornwell: the story becomes a novel . Give a book as a gift I have asked myself several times whether it is useful to give a book as a gift. And once again I take inspiration from the rich blog of Ferruccio Gianola who wrote The most wrong book I received as a gift.
Because, after all, this sentence condenses what I think about gifted books. Continue reading the article Giving a book as a gift . When to use capital letters (and when not) I often find articles online with excessive use of capital letters. An abuse of capital letters. Going back in time, to elementary school, I remember that they taught me that capital letters should be used for proper and geographical names, certainly not for objects, nouns and the like. Continue reading the article When to use capital letters (and when not to) . How to write a 300 word short story On the occasion of the competition organized by the Scheletri.com website, 300 words for a nightmare, to which a short story of 300 words maximum can be sent, I had the idea of writing this article to give some suggestions on writing a story of this brevity .