December 10, 2021 Missed It Again Sorry, everyone! Still crazy here. 🤞posts coming soon. Here’s a cute kitty blep to keep you entertained in the meanwhile: Categories General Thoughts & Updates Comments: 0
December 2, 2021 No Post Today It’s been a crazy week, so I’m not gonna manage a post today. I’ll try to catch up this weekend, but we’ll see. Best wishes, everyone! Em Categories General Thoughts & Updates Comments: 0
November 25, 2021 Happy Thanksgiving 2021 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I am taking the day off blogging, and I hope you get a holiday from work, too. May you have delicious food and many happy moments! -Em Categories General Thoughts & Updates Comments: 0
November 18, 2021 Freudian Slippers Are a Thing Yes, you read that right. Somebody with a sense of humor decided that the world needs this punny product transforming Freudian Slips into footwear. So, yes, Freudian Slippers are a thing. You can buy them at Amazon. There’s not much more to say except… That’s frickin’ hilarious. Not necessarily the product itself but the fact that it exists, right? And... Categories Business & Publishing/Humor & Wordplay Comments: 0
November 11, 2021 Happy Veterans Day 2021! I don’t think I can express my feelings about Veterans Day better than the Veterans Day poem I wrote a few years ago, so I’ll just wish you all a happy Veterans Day and say thanks to all who do or have served. Categories General Thoughts & Updates Comments: 0
November 4, 2021 Loose versus Lose “Loose” versus “lose”: these two are so misused it drives me nuts. Seriously, I recently saw someone make this mistake in ballotpedia and came across “a mind is a terrible thing to loose” somewhere else (it might’ve been funny if it’d been deliberate). To fix this, let’s talk about the difference between “loose” and “lose” and when to use which... Categories Grammar & Editing Comments: 0
October 28, 2021 Creating a Foil for Your Character & More My goal for this article is to cover all aspects of creating a foil for your character (or characters): what a foil is, how to create a foil, and ways to use a foil in a story. Using Foils in Your Story What is a Foil? A foil is a character that contrasts another character. They’re most often used to... Categories Literary Device Exercises/Literary Devices & Writing Techniques/Writing Prompts Comments: 0
October 21, 2021 Writing After a Break Changes Things Ever take a break from writing? Fall out of the habit or let it slip aside because life gets really busy for a while? Well, when you get back to it, you’ll find that writing after a break is a bit different than when you’re writing every day. 3 Ways Going Back to Writing After a Break Changes Things 1.... Categories Creative Process Comments: 0
October 14, 2021 How to Write Freudian Slips (What Is a Freudian Slip?) A Freudian Slip is a literary device that is used to insert comedy and reveal secrets. Before we get into how to write Freudian Slips, however, let’s start with the definition. Freudian Slip Definition A Freudian Slip is a type of word replacement where an innocent or “safe” word is replaced with one that has a deeper, revealing meaning. The... Categories Humor & Wordplay/Literary Devices & Writing Techniques Comments: 0
October 7, 2021 Why Recognizing the Parts of Speech of Words Is Important One of the first things we learn in English is the basic parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Over the years, I’ve had many students who could glibly quote the definition of each, but they couldn’t find an example of one in a sentence. That scares me because recognizing the part of speech of words is important to almost... Categories Grammar & Editing Comments: 0
