Help Beat Writer’s Block
By Annette Rey
Beat that blank page! There are lots of ideas out there to spark your brain, to pick up your pen, to place your fingers on the keyboard. Here is one of my favorite ways that works for me.
From the Urban Dictionary
By Annette Rey
Last week I posted a word from https://www.urbandictionary.com/ and today I viewed the site again. This site is a treasure trove for mining writing ideas. The first page struck me and story scenarios reeled through my head.
Take a look.
Be Honest
By Annette Rey
When I write a profile of a person I know, I go into extreme detail. Following is an example of what I do.
To Pen Name or Not
By Annette Rey
It sounds simple and ridiculous to think changing your name may improve your writing opportunities, but here’s a writer’s story that may make you think differently.
By Annette Rey
Are you writing a modern day story which includes street lingo and you want to get it right? Then visit this site:
Commercial Finds
By Annette Rey
Okay, so I have two more observations to report of English gone astray. In the first case, an organization needed an editor before it dared embarrass itself and spend its ad dollars this way. And it keeps airing countless times without correction. The second case is a common word misplacement.
By Annette Rey
Since I love words, and we writers need to know them, I am creating a new category for my site – Word of the Week. These words will be new, fun, unusual, and sometimes ancient – simply because all words can be useful as we continue down our writing (and reading) road.
Today’s word is:
ex·ig·u·ous
[eɡˈziɡyo͞oəs, ekˈsiɡyo͞oəs]
Exiguous is an adjective and means very small in size or amount.
His aristocratic family considered him a pauper due to his exiguous funds.
Synonyms are –
meager inadequate insufficient small scanty paltry negligible modest deficient piddling stingy miserly measly niggardly beggarly
Also:
Exiguousness, noun
Exiguously, adverb
Help For Your Manuscript
By Annette Rey
I said help for your manuscript but, hey, Bloggers, this is for you, too.
I like my written work to look clean, well-thought out, well-planned. I’m a stickler on things both large and small. Are you?
Don’t you hate it when you are typing away and something in the software program is not cooperating with your standards? How do you fix it?
Glenda of Glenda’s Globe is a sincere and sensitive soul. She has unique ways to paint a picture, as this photograph shows and I’d like to share her with my readers.
Writer's Block No More 