When should we use what? Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a writer who didn’t think much…
Category: 05 Language & Writing
05 Language & Writing
Are you Improvising or Improving? Or Neither?
Please forgive a rant by a lover and protector of the language No, no, no! ‘Improvise’ does not mean ‘improve’. It…
How to Become a Perpetual Ideas Machine
We can keep writing lifelong Humankind has been seeking a Perpetual Motion Machine for centuries, however impossible it may be, and…
How Illumination and Medium Helped Me Write This Book
Here’s what they did for me First, let me tell you about the book ‘Philosophy of Life Instinct’. Many of my…
The #cancelsic Movement
I am sick of sic. Aren’t you? You all know the word ‘sic’, which appears in parentheses after a piece of…
3 Reasons Why I’ll Gladly Read Your Old Stories
So if I haven’t, just ask me.
I wish people would read my older stories. Most will read my latest post that appears in their feed because…
Are you a Writing Narci(ssist)?
A bit of a rant about those who publish to show off.
Hello again. Today I am venting about something that’s been putting me off for years. I am sharing it with…
This is All You Need for Unique and Delightful Writing
4 essential and 15 optional aspects to balance the authentic and the elegant in your stories.
Some of you may have read my story on the dangers of boredom in too many blogs being written by formula.…
Writing by Formula May Ruin the Pleasure Of Something Unique
Incessant devices are too much of a good thing.
As a writer, I let myself be bombarded every day, often multiple times in a day, with ‘How To’s and Listicles teaching…
The Pandemic of ‘I’ that is Killing ‘Me’
Political (in)correctness in grammar!
I have a grouse. I have a chip. I have a rant. It is about how everywhere I see, everyone…