Forgive me if this is the wrong part of the board, and feel free to move it, but I have a question.
A friend of mine, doing research, found very old copies of a magazine called The Writer. It is very, very funny in places, including an article called How To Write A Letter that was full of purposefully bad advice... from 1900 ("Write first perpendicularly, and then horizontally", if I remember right, and "Do not answer any questions posed, it encourages them to ask more"). It includes something called "Gossip About Writers".
My favorite part? It's still being published, and has been published, continuously, since 1887.
My question: Has anyone else heard of it? Is it still any good as a writer's resource? We looked briefly at the 2006 copies, but it was 10 pm and we had to get out of there. Frst glance it looked pretty good - but what's the word on the streets?
A friend of mine, doing research, found very old copies of a magazine called The Writer. It is very, very funny in places, including an article called How To Write A Letter that was full of purposefully bad advice... from 1900 ("Write first perpendicularly, and then horizontally", if I remember right, and "Do not answer any questions posed, it encourages them to ask more"). It includes something called "Gossip About Writers".
My favorite part? It's still being published, and has been published, continuously, since 1887.
My question: Has anyone else heard of it? Is it still any good as a writer's resource? We looked briefly at the 2006 copies, but it was 10 pm and we had to get out of there. Frst glance it looked pretty good - but what's the word on the streets?