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This week, it’s catch up time and things are finally coming together after a busy half-term. After a friend’s computer decided to bite the dust, taking a lot of her work with it, I thought it was time I took a look through my stored files to see what I need to store and what…
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My ‘Funny of the Week’ usually features something writing related but having come across the video for the ‘No No No Cat’, today, it has to have my nomination for ‘Funny of the Week’. No matter how many times I watch it, it still makes me smile.
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Morris is far too busy playing with my i-phone to help me work today!
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In my blog I’ve covered the topic of readers’ letters on a couple of occasions. A lot of readers’ letters are about articles featured in previous issues or about readers’ lives and experiences but readers’ letters can be more than just text. A lot of magazines offer an opportunity for the photographers amongst you. Even…
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As a writing tutor and marking most days, I do a lot of typing. So, as you can imagine, I’ve misspelled a few words. On reading work through, I’ve found I’ve typed: I look forward to hearing from you shorty instead of shortly. I’ve advised students that editors are very busty people instead of busy people. One…
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Not to be outdone by her ‘brother’, Morris, lending a paw two weeks ago, 17-year-old Clio thought she’d ‘help’ me this week.
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As all cat owners know, the following saying is so true! ‘Never feed your cat anything that doesn’t match the carpet’.
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…if Kindle and e-publishing take over???!!!
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It’s so easy to make mistakes when writing articles, short stories etc. Just one or two letters is all that it takes to alter all meaning and to make for a very different kind of read to the one the writer intended, as this example shows: She gazed out the front window, chewing her lips…
