Wednesday, October 16, 2019

How to Use an Em Dash, According to Cormac McCarthy

How to Use an Em Dash, According to Cormac McCarthy: Novelist Cormac McCarthy has spent twenty years editing what feels like the opposite of a novel: scientific papers by faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute. Some of the scientists he worked with have paraphrased and compiled McCarthy’s best writing advice. It applies to all kinds of writing, from emails to novels.