When you work with words there are rules that you have to live by and, in particular, grammatical rules. The use of the apostrophe is a pretty simple one, but I see it used in error every single day. For example:
Your brilliant! No, you’re not!
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That is all.
And so I am consoling myself with reading. I haven’t picked up a book or my Kindle since the beginning of November, and I’ve really missed it. I’ve had an urge, a constant inner nagging, to read some fantasy (it’s been too long!) and so I bought three new titles from three [...]
She dreamed of a mountain in the shape of a pyramid. A mountain that sat in a landscape of green and rose high above the clouds, nestled in a pure blue sky. She stood at the bottom, her eyes searching as far as they could see, but she could not make out the summit. She [...]
The week didn’t start well. Tuesday – Day 1 – and, for reasons that don’t need to be documented, by the time I retired to bed I had written exactly no words. It was therefore really important that I started Day 2 well and, for the first time, I took the laptop out on the [...]
After much consideration, I have decided to undertake NaNoWriMo again this year. After being sabotaged at the final hurdle last year, by the flu, I wanted to give it another go and see if I can complete this time around. Initially, I wanted to work on developing one of my current projects [...]
It’s been a long time since I blogged. It’s been a long time since I did any writing, consistently. After Nano last year I had a small hiatus that turned into a long break, as those hiatuses (hiati?) generally do when you’re a writer. But I’ve been suffering with a serious attack of self-questioning – [...]
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” ~ William Shakespeare
Evil.
Old.
Bag-faces.
The end.
But, seriously, they have haunted and disturbed me all my life. And for the purposes of this blog post, when I say Witch I mean the childhood image that comes to mind of the fantasy-based black-pointy [...]
My Reading List 2011
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