Pets
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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…”…
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I don’t know about you, but this time yesterday, the working wasn’t going well and I was ready to a) hurl my laptop across the room b) burst into tears or c) both. Thankfully today things have gone smoothly (so far) and I feel like I’m getting somewhere. My market for your this week is…
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Last week, I gave the dogs a chance, now, thanks to this little cutie, it’s back to ‘cat tired’! Though, surely not the most comfortable place to fall asleep??!!
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My tip this week applies to all aspiring writers and that’s to never give up. It can be very disheartening to receive rejection letter after rejection letter or not to hear back at all – I know, I’ve been there. But I kept going, researching markets, reading others’ work, building on my punctuation and grammar…
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After buying our cats some catnip sachets at the latest ‘Cats Protection Open Day’, I can vouch that all of ours have been behaving like the kitty on the left!
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‘Cat Tired’ has appeared as the title on one of my Monday morning blogs so it’s only fair that I give dogs a chance. I don’t know about you but I’m really struggling through Monday. I think this little one has the right idea:
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My award this week goes to a ‘cat’ quote, by an unknown author: ‘No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it’. Though, I think any cat would have a hard time making this little doggy look guilty:
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No work for me! So there I was, Monday morning and ready to set to work, when Joe decided that he’d ‘help’ me by sitting on my laptop. I can’t work without my laptop. That’s a shame, isn’t it?
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If you’re writing an article which is date/season/time specific, make sure you give yourself plenty of time to write your piece before the actual date/season/time. It may take you a while to research the person/event/subject and then to check all your facts. Then, having written your article, it needs to be received by the editor…
Esther Chilton 