15 Media clichés that make your skin crawl
I know that journalists in the “popular” press are obliged to use language with which readers can identify easily, but there are some terms in common use that drive me up the wall – cheesy, old fashioned, done to death and BORING. See how many of these make you cringe, too… Swears like a trooper [...]
Telling tales – writing your way to better health
Many of us underestimate the negative affect stress and pressure of everyday life can put on our health. Sleepless nights, irritability, over eating and drinking too much. Yep, I have been there, done that, got the empty digestives packet and Jack Daniels bottle. I know from first hand experience, that how you handle stress will [...]
National Punctuation Day: celebrating the importance of proper punctuation
“Prose has its own musicality, and the more notation the better. I like dashes, double-dashes, comashes and double comashes just as much. The colon is an umlaut waiting to jump; the colon dash is teasingly precipitous.” Will Self Does other people’s incorrect use of the possessive apostrophe drive you nuts? Does your own abuse of [...]
Revisiting 1980 – procrastination by research
I am well underway now, writing the second novel, provisionally called Fairy Street. Part of the novel (I’m not even sure how much yet, it could be ninety percent, or it could be only half…) is set back in 1980 and 1981. I’m really enjoying some of the research. So much of it is very [...]
How To Influence The Mind Of Anyone To Your Way Of Thinking….. Guaranteed
That’s what the heading said, right after the “Please Use Ethically:” Oops, no it didn’t – that was on the second webpage, the one you got to when you’d put in your email address in response to: PROOF! “How To Influence Anyone And Make Them Do What You Want Them To Do….. Guaranteed” “Million Dollar [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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