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Review: iA Writer for iPad

On March 14, 2011 By

I love my iPad for many reasons—its capacity for creative writing is not one of them.

That all changed the second I fired up this $0.99 pearl. Of course, writing is much more pleasant on my laptop, however, iA Writer at least makes it so I can write on my iPad in a way that […]

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Dashes 101

On February 9, 2010 By

I’ve written different variations of this article at least four times over the last ten years. (With luck, I won’t lose this one, too.) For those who may be confused, I offer a quick note on dashes.

There are two basic dashes—the em dash and the en dash:

em dash (—) its name derived from […]

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