cdevroe.com » david foster wallace http://cdevroe.com by Colin Devroe Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:49:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why grow sentences? http://cdevroe.com/links/why-grow-sentences/ http://cdevroe.com/links/why-grow-sentences/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:44:19 +0000 Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/?p=1890 Related to Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace: Shaun Inman nails it.

“This is how I design. This is how I code. This should really be how I write.”

Word Shaun, word.

]]> http://cdevroe.com/links/why-grow-sentences/feed/ 0 Growing sentences with David Foster Wallace http://cdevroe.com/links/growing-sentences-dfw/ http://cdevroe.com/links/growing-sentences-dfw/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:14:29 +0000 Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/?p=1848 This is an excellent post by the hardest working blogger Jason Kottke, who just so happens to be a big David Foster Wallace fan, about writing from a book by James Tanner, whose book is ironically entitled Kicking Ass Being the Result of One Man’s Fed-upped-ness With ‘How to Write’ Books Not Actually Showing You How to Write, in reference to best-selling author David Foster Wallace’s approach to sentence structure.

The above sentence isn’t even close to what could have been written if I had just followed the directions.

Source: Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace.

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