Incisor/canine/premolar/molar
Every piece of writing should be incisive. It should have bite.
It should quickly get to the point and leave the reader with something to chew over.
If it needs filling you’ve gone wrong somewhere!
Try
http://www.thesaurus.com
A searchable dictionary and thesaurus which will give you all the synonyms and antonyms your heart desires.
Have you left yours today?
As adults we become very used to being confident in some things. We also learn that there are things that we should probably not pursue.
( I should never paint cats. No,never)
But if we stop exploring then we never find the good stuff and trust me there is good stuff out there.
You might be ace at chess.
You don’t know if you don’t try
Maybe you make the best biscuits in the world.
Perhaps you are gifted at learning Norwegian.
I don’t know that I’m not…do you?
There are a world of possibilities out there and the only people who lose out are those who stop looking.
Fail at something new each day and be a winner!
That was man in the hippie sense and not a sexual stereotype honest Guv.
Get your running shoes on girls and boys. On April 13th Nanowrimo are running their first writing marathon day. See link for details. Wear loose clothing. No animals were harmed during the making of this blog post!
(not even wolves)
“In bocca al lupo! ” is a little Italian phrase that I hear most days. It is the way that Italians wish each other good luck. Literally translated it means
“in the mouth of the wolf”
Now, to those raised outside of Italy being in the mouth of the wolf might not seem very lucky and we certainly wouldn’t wish that on anyone. No, we would be searching the number for animal control.
However, if you look back to the creation mythology of Rome you find Romulus and Remus, two babes in the wood, abandoned in the hills and found by wolves. These wolves did not eat them. They carried them home and fed them and nurtured them. You can guess which city the wolflings founded.
To an Italian being in the mouth of the wolf is an incredibly lucky thing.
Context matters
When you are reading ask yourself where the author is in his mental map. What is his history, belief, world view? You will open yourself up to colours in their work that would have passed you by.
See the Wolf
It is national poetry writing month.
I’m not even kidding.
Now, not all of us posess the skills of Homer. Some of us avoid poetry because we fear a wedgie from our journalistic self.
Do not fear the Poem.
Large uncomfortable truth in an itty bitty space.
I will tell you why. There is no better way to learn the music of a language than to look at its poetry.
Lyricists take note.
Even if you is gansta Bro
Don’ mess with the Po’
This is a magazine web-site promoted by a couple of writing magazines. It still has lots of free content on the pages and information about regular writing competitions.
http://www.writers-online.co.uk
Worth checking out
Sometimes the grammar of the situation eludes even the best of us.
Check out Grammar girl for those days when objects are subjective and you want to use hyphens.
And asterisks
Oooh and parentheses!
A writer’s magazine that covers all the bases. The home page is cluttered with the usual sales pitches and courses but there are a couple of gems and on the right hand side the words we love to see as starving writers
“Free downloadable content”
Never pay for knowledge someone will give you gratis.
http://www.writersdigest.com
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