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Both autobiographies and memoirs are forms of non-fiction writing. An autobiography is a story of a person’s life from when they were born up to a point in time. It includes where they grew up, what they liked doing, what they did for work, who their family were and so on – it doesn’t usually leave much out. Putting all this … Continue reading
I posted a question on the WordPress Forum today but as I haven’t had a response yet, I thought I would throw the question to a wider audience. The situation is that I used to be able to copy a post that I had already published, thus saving me time each day. At the moment I … Continue reading
Should you feel guilty about not writing if you don’t feel well? The answer is no; however, my challenge is ‘to learn something new about writing every day for a year and blog about it to share with others, every day for a year’, so here I am. I was laying in a quiet, dark … Continue reading
I’ve recently been reading about setting up a writing portfolio. After a bit of a brainstorming session, I’ve put together a check list of things to think about before creating one: Where to put the portfolio. How often to up update it. What to put in the portfolio. Whether to create a word document with them all in … Continue reading
Writing is a way of communicating not only with someone else e.g. by emails, blogs, articles etc., but also with yourself. I know I’ve mentioned this many times in my blog posts, but I’ve been writing for as long as I’ve been able to hold a pen, and the diaries and journals that I have kept, go back to when I … Continue reading
The different dialects used in America and and United Kingdom are sometimes known American English and British English. Peter Strevens, professor of phonetics since 1949 and author of British and American English, wrote: “British and American are seen as ‘families’ of varieties of common language, different, yet having equal merit”. A few examples of differences include: punctuation … Continue reading
To mark the milestone of my 200th blog on my daily My Writing Challenge I thought I’d show you something a little different. Did you know that The Free Dictionary (by Farlex) is more than just a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia? The link above will take you to their home page which has a whole range of information and … Continue reading
I’m fine being asked if I’m a mum, a project manager, an accountant, a training manager and a testing manager, but when someone asks me if I am a writer, I come up with this long-winded sentence which goes something like this: ‘I’ve written all my life and I’d like to think I am a writer, in fact I … Continue reading
To recap on yesterday’s blog in Note 162 – Language = Vocabulary + Grammar rules, grammar is the glue that holds the words together to form a language. Today I am going to analyse a sentence word by word and if this brings up any new information that I haven’t covered before, it will form part of a future post. According … Continue reading
Collins Improve your Writing Skills by Graham King explains that you require two keys for language to work as a communication tool – ‘vocabulary’ and ‘grammar’. Vocabulary (words) will never work on their own without the grammar rules that sticks them together. I won’t quote Graham King’s analogy on this until later down the page. Here are a couple … Continue reading
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