Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.Karl Marx, philosopher. I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.Humphrey[…]
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10 Contranyms (with examples)
English is a confusing language. Simple words can have opposite meanings or different implications. It all depends on the context. Here’s some examples …
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What the FAQ?
There’s and old saying that the computing industry is confusing mass of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and ETLAs (Extended Three-Letter Acronyms[…]
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Quote: Edgar Rice Burroughs
A wholesaler of pencil-sharpeners, Edgar Rice Burroughs knew nothing of writing when he penned his first story…
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Quote: Anne Rice
Anne Rice is author of 27 books and best known for her Vampire Chronicles series which began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976.
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Quote – Dan Poynter
Dan Poynter (1938–2015) was an American author, consultant, publisher, and parachute designer…
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Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice
If a sentence still makes sense when you can tack the words “by zombies” on the end, it’s in the[…]
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Quote: John Updike
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement[…]
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Quote: Isaac Asimov
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov As a kid, Asimov got his start reading science[…]
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