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  • Funny Of The Week

      Alternatively, get a giant purse:      

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  • The Monday Grumps

    After getting up at five am yesterday morning to go and watch my daughter in a swimming gala all day, I’m feeling a little grumpy today. Any of you share the feeling?     Obviously someone does!    

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Naughty Numbers! Last week, it was page numbers and this week, it’s numbers in the body of your work. Are you sometimes unsure whether you should write numbers in word or figures e.g. ‘8’ or ‘eight’? Generally the numbers one to ten are written in words and those that come after are written in figures.

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  • I don’t know about you but I just can’t seem to get going this week. A little bit like this fella:     Hopefully by tomorrow, I’ll have a little more go in me:      

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Page Numbers! With more and more publications accepting submissions by e-mail, it’s easy to get out of the habit of adding page numbers to your work but it’s always useful to include them. The editor may wish to print out a copy of your work. If the pages are numbered, he/she can clearly see the

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    My tip for writers this week is to read, read and read. This applies to magazines and books. Not only are they entertaining, they can help you in your own writing including, how to structure paragraphs, setting passages of speech out, as well as grammar and punctuation issues. It was while reading an Enid Blyton

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  • For those of you living in the UK, you’ll be lucky if you escaped a good soaking this week. The heatwave of the summer seems a little distant but perhaps my writing exercise will help you to find that ray of sunshine: You have two themes to pick from: Holiday Heaven Holiday Hell You can

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I recently saw this caption: Accept that some days you’re the pigeon and some days you’re the statue. It’s so true! Which one are you today?    

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  • Cat And Dog Tired!

    I’m not sure either one is too impressed with this arrangement!  

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Three dots is plenty! My top tips have included advice on not overdoing exclamation marks as well as dashes. Now it’s the turn of the three dots… An example of when this is used is where a character’s words trail off in speech e.g.: “I need some time to think about it…I’ll let you know…”

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