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Mind Your Ps and Qs

April 20, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

I’m known around here as a first-class mangler of phrases and clichés.
For some reason, I have a really tough time with clichés and idioms. I’m always getting them wrong. Take “pedal to the metal”, for instance. For years, I’d say “Petal to the metal”. It rhymes, after all!
So this morning I woke up [...]

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H is for Hearsay

April 13, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

I was thinking I’d blog “H is for Honesty” and then own up to the fact that I’m really lousy at blogging challenges, which is why, despite having already written one “catch-up” post, I am still woefully behind on the A to Z Challenge.
And then I realized, that would just be stating the obvious. I’m [...]

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The Art of Mangling Clichés

January 26, 2010 Writing

I’ve never met a cliché that I haven’t mangled in some way or other.
The other day I was thinking to myself, “Hey, wait a minute. There is a cliché that I know inside out. That I would never, not in a million years, mangle. A dollar for your thoughts. Hah!”
It took me a few hours [...]

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Do You Know What This Is Called?

October 20, 2009 Writing

There’s one benefit about being in this community of book lovers and writers – when I get stumped by a language question, I know where to turn!
I need to know what a phrase like “figment of the imagination” is called.
It’s not a cliché, I know, but is there a word(s) that describes such a phrase?
And, [...]

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What Are Your Favorite Words?

September 25, 2009 Writing

From now until November 1, in preparation for NaNoWriMo, I will be in full research mode for my NaNoWriMo novel. (Here’s my NaNoWriMo profile – if you’re participating, let’s be Writing Buddies!)
My research? Words! Lots and lots of glorious, gorgeous words, with perhaps a handful of more desolate words for variety.
I will be in full [...]

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