Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 28, 2019

gee, Snoopy, you think?

More than just a little, Snoopy.

I’m not buying this book, or any in this era except Animal Farm

What’s your point here Snoopy? You’re being cryptic in your writing!

Snoopy is running out of material

“It was a dark and stormy night in Paris where she spent some of the best years of her life.”

She is not old enough to have had the finest years of her life yet.

As long it emotes. it’ll be fine.

Looks like someone’s red pen is going to get a lot of work!

I’ve done “stints” as a technical writer between gigs in IT and management. Don’t ask, it’s a wired career. I fancy myself to be a good writer. When working in my tech writing positions, I got to work with editors who tore my work apart. It was a good experience and my writing improved because of it.

One of the hallmarks of good technical writing is that it is “lean and mean;” the objective is to get as much information across in as few words as possible.

It’s been a long time since I’ve cashed a paycheck based on my writing and I find that my writing today has gotten “flabby.” So I can identify with the old Snoop, in today’s strip.

A lot of editing.

Snoopy’s technique of extension writing reminds me of some of my term papers in seminary. Just take a single thought and stretch it out every-which-way to make a paragraph. I see this technique in authoritative papers on archeology by people with phds and by writers of comments and replies below these toons. I guess we can say Snoopy is in good company.

Not if you’re paid by the word.

Snoopy’s writing is caught in a “do loop” like programming code.

Snoopy’s words of whiz-dumb make me homesick for “The Great Catcher” and “The Gatsby in the Rye” (see today’s Pearls Before Swine"!

Very Gertrude Stein-ish.

you think

“We’ll always have Paris,” she said, and they did always have Paris.

“He went to ParisLooking for answersTo questions that bothered him so”

Yep, it’s going to need some editing. That’s what it’s going to need all right, some editing. Maybe more than a little editing, but at least some editing.

24hr news broadcast scripts – just saying

How about new sentences Snoopy?

Ya think, Snoopy?…

After you’ve got “It was a dark and stormy night” as your intro, the pressure on what follows is ENORMOUS!

It was a dark and stormy night. In Paris.

Snoopy must be getting paid by the word.

Write first, edit later.

I though it was the finest strip I read I thought it was the finest strip I read I thought it was the finest strip I read.

That was INCREDIBLE. I don’t usually expect too much in the way of comedy from “Peanuts,” but wow.