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The Lunchboxing Style Guide
by paws o'henry We look forward to receiving your submissions, which can be sent to jamie@lunchboxing.com. There are just a few rules we ask you to follow to keep the site from looking chaotic, and to make your writing experience as restrictive and unpleasant as possible. Sorry! 1. Spelling: Spellcheck everything. It's easy. Also read carefully to make sure you catch things spellcheck doesn't, like words that sound like the ones you intended to use. Don't say "Your dumb," when you meant to say, "You're dumb." 2. Composition titles: Names of all movies, television shows, books and albums are in italics. Names of songs and stories are in quotes. Use bold at your own discretion when you want to draw attention to proper nouns, like people's names. 3. Quote marks: Quotes end with a punctuation mark (a comma, period, exclamation point or period), then a quotemark. Right: "Hello," she said. Wrong: "Hello", she said. Yes, we realize lots of Web sites use quote marks the wrong way. Those sites are run by idiots. 4. Hyphens: Just so you know, we are using the words "dash" and "hyphen" synonymously. Hope you're okay with that. So. Use two dashes, which are located on your keyboard between the zero key and the equal sign key. Don't use the shift function simulateously, which creates weird-looking "under" dashes like_the_ones_connecting_these_words. (See? Looks bad.) Microsoft Word usually transforms two short dashes into one cool-looking long dash. That's fine. One more thing about hyphens: When you use two words together, like "cringe" and "worthy," to form an adjective, link them with a single dash: "That movie was cringe-worthy." This rule does not apply when the first word ends in "ly": "That book is blatantly racist." We're serious about this. 5. Apostrophes: No one in America has a clue how to use them. Here are some tips. When you're using the possessive form of "Its," there's no apostrophe. When you're combining "It" and "is" to form "It's," there is an apostrophe. Please, please, please don't just throw in apostrophes just because a word ends in "s." There is no need for an apostrophe in the word "nachos," for example. The only time you need one is to show possession or to combine a word with "is." There aren't too many words you can combine with "is." There's "there's" and "that's" and "what's" and "where's" and "how's" and "who's" and the aforementioned "it's." And a few more. What I'm saying is, most people use far more apostrophes than they need. That's it! Have fun submitting your lame articles and stories. |
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