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A work colleague suggested today’s blog. He told me that he’s seeing an increasing amount of people confusing the words lose and loose. Apparently it’s been a word confusion for many years, more so recently because of predictive texts. Why is everybody starting to spell “lose” wrong? writes a very frustrated user on yahoo answers. This question is … Continue reading
I love reading and have always encouraged my two daughters to do the same. The last few weeks in particular, I’ve been spending more time with them and helping them to learn and recognise new words as they read their school books to me. This has led to a noticeable improvement in their spelling. Whilst … Continue reading
A commonly misspelled group of words are committee, committed, committing and commitment. Notice how the word commitment has only one ’t’ whereas the other words have two; however, don’t forget that in all word forms they have two ‘m’s. Here is a list provided by wikihow: http://www.wikihow.com/Spell-Commonly-Misspelled-Words A few commonly misspelled ones on the list are: Suprise (correct spelling: … Continue reading
Did you spot the mistake in the Wikipedia image? The theme this week is commonly misspelled words. In fact misspelled is one in itself – a lot of people spell it with one ‘s’ when in fact is has two. There also doesn’t appear to be a spelling ‘misspelt’ and no one has even written about … Continue reading
I want to share with you a great post from Skelliewag.org called A complete guide to finding and using incredible flickr images. The author Skellie (who no longer updates the site but has great archived content on there) writes how “images included with most posts magnetize the eye to the page and create an atmosphere for the rest of the piece”. That … Continue reading
A couple of months ago, I blogged about using images in my posts, but stopped using them after a few days as it felt too big a job to either find an image or take a photo myself. I thought about it again this week when my brother Robert quite rightly pointed out that my blogs would be more appealing with an image. Now, Robert … Continue reading
Yesterday I stumbled upon the word kaizen whilst listening to a motivational audio programme by Tony Robbins called Lessons in Mastery. He explained that kaizen is a continuous improvement process used by the Japanese, which we can also apply to our daily lives. It made me want to learn more as I was sure I could apply this to … Continue reading
Daily improvements can really make a difference to your life. As a writer you may do this by committing yourself to do something daily in order to move closer towards your writing goals. This can put pressure on you to come up with an article, blog or other writing piece when either inspiration doesn’t strike, or on the days when you are … Continue reading
Whilst writing yesterday’s post Note 255 – Writing commitments as a busy parent, I googled write-life balance to see if anyone had written about how to balance writing and life and The Writing/Life Balance by Jamie Raintree was the only article that I could see that title in. I am so glad I read it and it’s given me … Continue reading
An amazing post called The Dos and Don’ts for Busy Parents Who Blog appeared in my inbox this morning, and the timing couldn’t have been better as it not only captured exactly how I was feeling yesterday, but sums up how other parents feel when trying to multi-task with writing and other chores. It’s written by … Continue reading
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