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Here's the most petty, unreasonable hill I will die on: the word 'atop' sears my eyeballs every time I read it. It is never appropriate. It always adds bathos to every scene unless the narrator happens to be a member of the British gentry during the Edwardian era. Please, no more. Please stop using this word, everyone

My favourite part of this book so far are the essays by various featured writers, especially the essay on writer's block by Matthew Cheney, which made me sputter with laughter.

"recognize that no good ever came from not putting dialogue between quotation marks"

oof, disagree