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I see a lot of articles come through my inbox from sites I subscribe to. Whenever I see a ‘how to’ article I feel compelled to click on it, possibly because it might teach me something (and I love learning). The most recent one was from Write it Sideways by Suzannah. She always writes good articles so opening a ‘how … Continue reading
As it’s a leap year this year, my writing challenge will finish with note 366 on 30 April 2012. Today I will start the 100 day countdown. I thought I would use today’s post to reflect on the past 266 days and think about the skills that I have gained or improved on. The ability to focus – I’ve always been … Continue reading
This week I have been looking at commonly misspelled words, and ‘proof’, ‘prove’ and ‘proving’ fall into this category. Although I know that proof has two ‘o’s and prove hasn’t, I tend to pause when writing ‘prove’ or ‘proving’ as it sounds like they should have a second ‘o’ (as in ‘proove’ or ‘prooving’). An article on … Continue reading
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
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