Pets
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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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Alternatively, get a giant purse:
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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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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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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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I’m not sure either one is too impressed with this arrangement!
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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…”
Esther Chilton 