Link: "Somewhere a Dog Barked" Pick up just about any novel and you'll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance. By Rosecrans Baldwin: "As a reader of novels and not much else, I keep a running list of authorial whims. Male writers of the Roth/Updike generation, for example, love the word cunt . Also, where novelists once adorned their prose with offhand French bon mots , Spanish now appears. Here's another: Novelists can't resist including a dog barking in the distance."
a blog by the writer E. S. Liew. Because the best ideas start on the back of receipts and paper napkins, written with a Staedtler 2B pencil.