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There are two online dictionaries that I have found useful when trying to work out how to pronounce something. Howjsay.com is “a free online dictionary of English pronunciation” with 151,299 entries (as at the time of writing). After you’ve typed in your word, it appears in pink – you then hover your mouse over the word and an … Continue reading
Tiny Online has a section on their website called ‘unusual words’. The one that caught my eye today was ‘autohagiography’ which is a rarely used words meaning “one who speaks and writes in a smug fashion about their own life and accomplishments”. World Wide Words (a site by writer Michael Quinion) say that: “The first use of it I can trace … Continue reading
Having been at my cousin’s wedding all day in London, I knew that it was going to be tricky to find a writing tip to blog about – until halfway through the church service when my family turned to me and asked what arrhae meant. After googling it later, I’ve discovered that it means unity coins … Continue reading
Being mainly a non-fiction writer, I have never felt the need to watch people and write down valuable thoughts that I can use in my writing pieces….until today. Earlier on I was sent a link on Twitter which led me to an article by Cindy Huff called “How People-Watching Makes You a Better Writer” (source: Write It Sideways website … Continue reading
After 5 minutes flow writing and still no inspiration for today’s blog, I thought I’d research getting more followers on Twitter. After all that is part of the Daily Writing Tips course work this week. Before signing up to the popular blog directories, I googled ‘Twitter followers for writers’ and it brought back 19 million results. The … Continue reading
Today’s suggestion for a writing topic comes from Noel Walker, founder of OpenLeaf and author of Get the Life you Want (Twitter @GTLYW). The suggestion he tweeted was “what about something on the lines of writers block i.e. just start writing, anything & allow those inspired thoughts to come?”. Thanks Noel. I don’t recall ever having writer’s block as such, but … Continue reading
Whether you are writing for yourself or others, it really helps if you enjoy what you are writing about. Since I was four I’ve mostly written for myself – diaries, journals, notes etc. In more recent years, my writing focus has changed and although I still keep personal journals, I also love writing for others (on … Continue reading
Six months ago I set up my writing notebook blog and the challenge that began on 1st May 2011 was for me to learn a new writing tip every day for a year and blog about it to teach others. I’m now half way there and determined to continue. What I have achieved in this time I feel that I’ve … Continue reading
This is day 183 which marks the half way point of My Writing Challenge. I feel that I now need to organise the content not only for historical posts but also future ones, so that they are all accessible to readers of this blog. I will update the site to make it easy to do things like ‘search by category’ or ‘find the most popular … Continue reading
I’m glad I committed myself to coming back to a second blog today. It made me clear the space around where I write and now I feel a whole lot better. Here’s the link if you missed Note 182a. Below are also a few notes about the psychology of writing that I was inspired to write after reading … Continue reading
My Writing Notebook 