Writing
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Writing by the seat of my pants: Nanowrimo update 2
Day: 10 Goal word count: 16,667 Current word count: 17,781 Mood: Circumspect Prognosis: I did a lot of cleaning up…
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Why not just write a novel: NaNoWriMo update 1
This year, for the first time in a few years, I’m participating in Nanowrimo. For those of you who might…
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Logophile Tuesdays – Pronoun Problems
There has recently been another kerfuffle over the complexities involved with attempting to adapt the gender-binary nature of our language…
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Logophile Tuesdays: Portwomanteau
Anne brought to my attention, this week, the use of an appalling portmanteau: “womenpreneurs.” This is unclear if this is…
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Logophile Tuesday – Verbal Irony
Perhaps my favorite form of wordplay is clever verbal irony. That is, simple phrases that are internally contradictory in delightfully…
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Logophile Tuesday – Contronyms
A few weeks ago, I complained that “literally” had lost its original meaning and was now its own antonym. Thanks…
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Logophile Tuesday – Proofreading
Anne passed me a little poetic performance Taylor Mali that belongs in our collection of linguistic ruminations. It is a…
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Sofia Kovalevskaya: Love Makes All the Partial Difference
Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes…
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