Another Television Error #6
By Annette Rey
These words are more commonly misused than I like to think and have been brought to mind by another example – this is number six – of improper choice of word on a real crime television program. Albeit the incorrect word was chosen by a person being interviewed and not by the programming staff, still I am amazed the staff did not stop taping and did not perfect their broadcast.
Let’s look at these words.
I am re-posting this book list from https://glendasglobe.com/2017/04/11/my-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-110. These look like really great books to help us grow, as people and as writers.
There Is a Difference
By Annette Rey
Avoid an embarrassing mistake. Make the right choice for the meaning you want to convey.
Whom You Meet
By Annette Rey
We meet people everyday and usually take little notice, and we certainly don’t engage in extended conversation with strangers. That’s too bad because we miss good opportunities to study the differences between people, and to discover things about them we can’t read from the surface.
Because I stepped over into another person’s world, today presented fodder for my writing. I remind you, as writers, to do the same.
Go Deep
By Annette Rey
Looking for prompts? Looking to unlock the writing vault in your brain? Take a subject like ancient mariners. Then, research, role-play, and write.
Reading Should be Fun
By Annette Rey
I wrote a post on creating imaginative words and plugging them into your writing. In the process, I mentioned Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky where the author did just that. To treat myself again to that frabulous writing, I read the poem online. Besides loving it all over again, what else I found sort of disturbed me.
Writer's Block No More 