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Colin Nissan has put together a list of great advice for writers, with hilarious descriptions. 

“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts.”

It gets better. Read the full article on McSweeney’s. 

Too funny. McSweeney’s posts a satirical job posting for an Entry Level News Production Assistant.

Requirements for this unpaid internship include: 10 years of experience, expert use of all social media platforms (a minimum of 50,000 Twitter followers), and fluency in Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.

 In return, candidates are expected to handle all breaking news, pitch all segment ideas for every broadcast and market all the news coverage. 

Head over to McSweeney’s to read the extensive job posting. 

Does this ring true for any of you job hunting right now?

I am digital. I’m more digital than Facebook plus Twitter times Pandora to the power of Google. I am the Eggman and the Walrus.

The first few tweets:

• “38% of HIGHLIGHTS subscribers are not allowed within 1000 feet of an elementary school.”
• “78% of you are reading this right now.”
• “7% of people buried in cemeteries cited ‘dwindling air supply’ as their primary concern.”

Via Poynter.