The wrong way can sometimes succeed No matter how well you research, prepare and plan, there is still no guarantee of success. Similarly, however, when you do everything the wrong way, there is no absolute guarantee of failure. I only draw your attention to these two points because I am presently in the process of…
Writing is one thing, but preparing your writing for readers is another. With so many writers now being given the wonderful opportunity to publish their work, there are many who are either sloppy and lazy or are lacking in the grammatical and orthographic fundamentals necessary to write well. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, a…
Oh no, it’s the Grammar Police again! Over the years I have had my fair share of attacks by the Grammar Police, or as they are sometimes called the Grammar Nazis. They are a strange breed, as they obviously have little better to do than painstakingly read mountains of text, all in the hope of finding…
Big Brother is watching you! It’s very easy to forget as we lie back on our sofas with our laptops, iPads and smart phones, Tweeting and Facebooking away that we are being continuously monitored. Unaware of the possible consequences of out little text exchanges. As happened recently to a young Saudi newspaper columnist, whose Tweet has…
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Writing is akin to being naked in the street baring yourself to the world. This paraphrases the thought expressed to me by a friend recently when we discussed publishing one’s writing. The analogy is very good in fact as what we write are our thoughts, which normally are of course politely and extremely well hidden…
While some may not know, I don’t have a reputation for positivity. This is not to say I don’t like positivity, it’s just that it isn’t as much fun. For one thing, positive sentences aren’t as long as short non-negative ones. Secondly, positive sentences don’t let you use the fun apostrophe nearly as much except…
