To email a stranger

Advancing technology has altered our perceptions of generic conventions in interesting ways. What exactly is the difference between a text message and an email? Do we expect them to have different kinds of writing in them? To address different people in our lives? Do we accept different responses as "timely"?

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First Post!

Welcome to Appendance's blog: Appendances! (If you say it funny, it almost sounds like a British "Happenstances"). Here we will provide writing tips, writing-related anecdotes, and various other tidbits having to do with writing, editing, copyediting, development, any and all aspects of the writing and revising process. We hope to answer your questions about writing and editing while entertaining you a little!