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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
If I could incorporate 10% of the ideas and recommendations from this book, I’d be 400% happier about my writing. Read this book if you write anything, even if it’s limited to twitter. If you blog, then there’s no excuse not to pick this up and always have it on your desk.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.