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Joke Jan 24, 11:41 AM

The Thesaurus Anonymous Meeting

Welcome to Thesaurus Anonymous. My name is— well, it's also my moniker, appellation, designation, sobriquet, and nom de plume. I've been clean for three days. Or should I say: a trio of diurnal cycles, a trinity of solar rotations, seventy-two hours of lexical sobriety. My editor says I have a problem. A predicament. A quandary. A conundrum. An... okay, I see what she means now.

Joke Jan 19, 04:01 PM

The Minimalist's Memoir Crisis

A minimalist writer decided to pen his autobiography. After three years of work, he proudly presented his editor with the final manuscript: a single page reading 'I was born. Things happened. I'm still here.' When asked about the missing details, he shrugged and said, 'I cut all the unnecessary parts.' The editor replied, 'But where's the story?' The writer gasped, horrified: 'I knew I over-edited something.'

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