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Have any of you made new year resolutions and broken them already? Yes? That’s exactly why I don’t bother with them anymore! I wonder how many of these would be kept:
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I took a longer holiday from my blog than first envisaged, but as the rest of the household were off for two weeks, I thought what was good enough for them was good enough for me! Though, I haven’t had a complete break and have still been tutoring and writing through the holidays (well, that’s
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Worried about the pile of tacky Christmas themed presents about to come your way next week? This moggy knows just how you feel:
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Windy walks and bubble baths I’m sure you’ll know what I mean when I say that some days your writing just seems to flow effortlessly and before you know it you’ve reached that goal of 1000 words. On other days, holding a tarantula in your hand for ten minutes (or a snake, rat, cockroach etc
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Homophone Headache! Yesterday in my writing exercise for you, I asked you to spot ten deliberate mistakes in a page of text. One of the mistakes was a homophone (aloud/allowed) where the words sound the same but have a different meaning. It’s so easy to type the wrong word but always look at the context
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This would be my 17-year-old feline’s idea of kitty heaven!
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I laughed when I read this quote. It’s so true!: Shortest horror story in history: Tomorrow is Monday. Someone agrees:
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Crafty Commas! A lot of new writers are unsure where commas should be placed when writing dialogue. Here’s a guide to help you: If you lead into a passage of speech with ownership, a comma should be placed before the words of speech e.g.: Sarah said, “Would you like a cup of tea?” Alternatively, if
Esther Chilton 