by Marilynne Rudick | Sep 10, 2008 | Writing Matters Blog
It seems as if I can never quite catch up with my e-mail. After reading Mark Hurst’s book Bit Literacy about coping with e-mail overload, I did actually get to the goal of having zero e-mails in my inbox. I confess that didn’t last long. Mark has great ideas for...
by Marilynne Rudick | Sep 4, 2008 | Writing Matters Blog
When USA Today popularized the use of bulleted lists in the early 1980s, I was not a fan. I railed about the newspaper reducing everything—no matter how complex—to a set of bullet points. What I saw then as a vice, I later realized was a virtue. Bullets let a writer...