Writing, revising, and editing content needs to be convenient, or mistakes go uncorrected and content goes “stale.” The Tameri Guide for Writers has pages with errors. Many pages are incomplete. Other pages are stale. Sometimes, things go wrong, yet lead to a positive change. On November 19, 2023, our web…
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We have started a major redesign and content refresh of the Tameri Guide for Writers. The new design focuses on the user experience. I want to explain some of the changes that are finally taking shape after years of benign neglect. Website Design Updates The new template uses a simple, modern…
Books, books, and more books. We live surrounded by books. We could try to cull books from the boxes, or even the shelves. We have pulled some books for donation or to sell back to a used bookstore, but we rarely part with more than a handful of books. The…
Some readers, especially passionate fans of particular authors and series, revel in complaining about adaptations of their beloved works. Not us. We appreciate that an adaptation might lead to re-readings by the fans and new readings by a few in the audience. Susan rereads Jane Austen, often right after we…
Statistically speaking, we read a lot. Our children read a lot. We are a book-loving house of readers. We used to visit the local library and support its book sale during the summer. We had let our daughters browse the book fairs at school, too. Once of twice a month,…
I read a lot of books about the evolution of textual production: books about the making of books. Though I own far more books on typography and lettering, books are where typography goes to work. Currently, I’m reading Keith Houston’s The Book. I want to order Houston’s Shady Characters to read, too. I…
Readers love books, and we certainly own a lot of the physical variety. Holding a book in your hands remains a special experience. However, you can only take a book or two with you most places, and sometimes you end up wanting a book when you don’t have one nearby.…
We recently moved into a new house and it was a reminder that we want (I’d argue we need) library-style, built-in bookcases complete with the rolling ladder system. Boxes of books were among the heaviest, and therefore most expensive, possessions to relocate halfway across the continent. Supposedly, we had 85 boxes…
We love to read, but there’s never enough time to read all the books on our lists. Listening to audiobooks offers an alternative, especially since I (Scott) drive an hour each direction to the university at which I teach and I work out for 30 minutes at least once a…
Writers develop biases for how they capture the words in their minds and record them for others to read, hear, or see. We both like to use paper, pens, and pencils for notes to ourselves. Susan keeps a notebook on her desk for thoughts and I have several notebooks on…