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Flying Pig Media Flying Pig Media offers editorial, social media marketing, and website design services to individuals and businesses. Today, the bar has been raised.

Some will tell you otherwise, but whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction for publication or business material, chances are you need an impartial editor. At Flying Pig Media, I perform three types of editing: a manuscript evaluation, copy editing, and developmental editing. There's a growing array of social media out there, and it can be difficult deciding which is best to pursue. Twitter, Li

nked-In, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. It's impossible for one person or a small company to do them all. So often the best solution is to pick one and do it well. I'll help you determine the best choice for your needs. Website design once was handled by geeks and websites were generally as stiff and stodgy as a law firm brochure. Websites have a lot more competition out there and there are new standards for both how they look and perform. Websites now need to be visually pleasing yet uncluttered, flexible with easy navigation. Original content that speaks to your audience is critical, and at its best that content should be kept current and fresh. The best websites are interactive, engaging users with timely information of value to them.

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01/17/2023

Yeow!

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." ...
05/16/2017

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Albert Einstein

It's important to keep your writing fresh. Sometimes it's better to take a break than to keep working when things feel s...
05/15/2017

It's important to keep your writing fresh. Sometimes it's better to take a break than to keep working when things feel stale.

This is your editor speaking. No more run-on sentences!
05/12/2017

This is your editor speaking. No more run-on sentences!

When I saw this photo it reminded me of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Coney Island of the Mind, and once again, Ezra Pound's a...
04/19/2017

When I saw this photo it reminded me of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Coney Island of the Mind, and once again, Ezra Pound's advice to writers: use the luminous details.

Flying Pig Media's Strange Animal TalesA couple in Chevy Chase, MD, opened a bag of spinach from Giant Food store and fo...
04/13/2017

Flying Pig Media's Strange Animal Tales

A couple in Chevy Chase, MD, opened a bag of spinach from Giant Food store and found a live scorpion inside. They were surprised, to say the least!

"Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is pav...
04/05/2017

"Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops."

Stephen King

Ezra Pound reminded writers to use 'luminous details' to set their work apart.Sometimes a good editor can help a writer ...
04/04/2017

Ezra Pound reminded writers to use 'luminous details' to set their work apart.

Sometimes a good editor can help a writer create and clarify those details. Let's talk if you'd like to learn how.

"Generally speaking, and as mentioned earlier, the smaller and more commonly used the word is, the more difficult it is ...
03/31/2017

"Generally speaking, and as mentioned earlier, the smaller and more commonly used the word is, the more difficult it is to define. Words like 'but,' 'as,' and 'for' have plenty of uses that are syntactically similar but not identical. Verbs like 'go' and 'do' and 'make' (and, yes, 'take') don't just have semantically oozy uses that require careful definition, but semantically drippy uses as well. 'Let's do dinner' and 'let's do laundry' are identical syntactically but feature very different semantic meanings of 'do.' And how do you describe what the word 'how' is doing in this sentence?

--Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionairies

I was reminded this week of a ritual I and my three brothers performed when we were kids, as we were driven to the denti...
03/30/2017

I was reminded this week of a ritual I and my three brothers performed when we were kids, as we were driven to the dentist from Cabin John, Maryland to downtown Washington D.C. The photo below shows the Hobfenmaier rendering plant on the left on the banks of the Potomac River (ugh) and the Washington Flour Company on the right, just east of Key Bridge before the Whitehurst Freeway was built.

By the time we were making this journey, the Freeway had been completed. The four of us would scream at the top of our lungs and roll up the windows in the car the minute we smelled the incredibly hideous fumes from this place. Imagine my poor mother in the summer in an un-air conditioned car.

Better yet was the sign that hung on the side of the four mill: "Objectionable Odors You May Notice in This Area DO NOT Originate in this Plant!"

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