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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to … Continue reading
Even if you love writing, there may be days when you are feeling a bit under the weather and cannot face logging on to your computer. When you find yourself feeling like this and you are up against a writing deadline, wouldn’t it be lovely if you had something prepared that you could just tidy up and … Continue reading
On my commute to work, I sometimes take my laptop to do some writing. The other day I was sitting next to a man who just kept glancing over at the screen. It wasn’t that I was hiding anything in particular, in fact I was just typing a blog post, but it was a little annoying. I decided … Continue reading
A.k.a. is an abbreviation meaning “also known as” and for a writer or author, it might appear before their pen name. According to Wikipedia, it is also used to introduce pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, maiden names and so on. It appears that it can be capitalised and/or punctuated and the variations I have … Continue reading
According to the Collins English Dictionary, the word epistemology is the “study of the source, nature and limitations of knowledge”. Wikipedia say that it comes from the “Greek words epistēmē, meaning ‘knowledge, science’, and logos, meaning ‘study of’”. A Scottish philosopher called James Frederick Ferrier introduced the term in the 19th century. Answers.com defines epistemology … Continue reading
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
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