David Blue's personal style guide across writing, social posts, etc.

In a desire to quantify/document my own personal preferences in composition, I have contemplated writing a style guide like this for a very long time.

The English language is no more than a tool for our use', and grammar should not be revered as an immalleable, Holy absolute which we must venerate and obey. Rather, it should be irreverently and liberally manipulated to perform as desired. - Extratone Style Guide - Extratone Wiki

⸎ Footnotes and Endnotes come after both punctuation and quotation marks.

spelling

⸎ "WiFi"

“sortof”

“featureset”

“Web Site”

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Style

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"I'd be remiss..."

"Really struck me."

"At the end of the day..."

"When it's all said and done..."

"In the final hour..."

"Out of all the __, __ really stood out to me..."

"In my book..."

"In my estimation..."

All idioms.

All platitudes.

The “tldr” school of thought.

I will write what I have not read.

"Scribam Quid Non Legerim"

https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1009130842130530305

I want to be deafened by the penultimate death rattle of a circuit bent sacrificial ritual and indiscriminately punched in the throat at a First Friday show.

Here’s what I know: the worthwhile publications have not been crucified on the Cross of “Readability,” the genre-busting song talent has not been given up in the face of the streaming service-afflicted music industry.

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A Brief, Unedited Reflection on the History of my Failed Media Projects


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