250 Words On...
Brian FiesI'm a writer, cartoonist, and sometime-science-guy who tries to start most mornings writing 250 words on anything. I post one of the good ones every Tuesday.
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250 Words on the AP Stylebook
On my first day writing for a newspaper, I used a serial comma (also known as an Oxford comma), which goes before the “and” in a series like “tea, scones, and jam.” My boss, a crusty sportswriter who’d been on the job for decades and would...
250 Words on Riding the Rails
I’ve taken four lengthy train trips, all aboard Amtrak in the western U.S. It’s a special way to travel, following routes laid down by wagon trains through landscapes you couldn’t see any other way.
The romance of the rails is real but al...
250 Words on Accessible Style
When I set out to write and draw my first graphic novel, Mom’s Cancer, more than 20 (!) years ago,* I faced a decision.
My first thought was to render it in a Gothic scritchy-scratchy crosshatched art style saturated in grays and blacks. I...
250 Words on Netiquette
An anonymous commenter on a recent post scolded me for not writing about a subject that’s very important to them. Anon seemed to consider my lack of interest an intellectual and moral failure, replying (with what I imagine to be a sneer), “...
250 Words on 26,000 Words
Today begins my third year of writing and posting one 250-word essay per week. Because each is exactly 250 words long, the math is easy: 2 years x 52 weeks/year x 250 words/week = 26,000 words.*
That adds up to a respectable novella’s-wort...
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