If you want to make small people laugh, quote business parlance at them. Windows of opportunity. Blue sky thinking. Thinking out of the box. Nothing like taking down a corporation by discovering that children just laugh at all the phrases. Consistently. Now bear in mind that kids can come up with some cracking phrases themselves, …
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Twilight. My old preferred writing time. Many of my teenage poems got written at twilight (before the word was taken over by all things vampiric). There is something about it that lends itself to musing, wistfulness, and other stuff that precedes writing. When to write now? Weekdays, I get a little window of time in …
Remember Tippex? That saver of misspellings – and also the chief source of gunky pens, when it hadn’t quite dried and you started writing over the top. Someone small was describing it to me yesterday – only they called it mistake glue. They told me that that the mistake glue gathers up all the wrong …
I’m reading more websites these days. Some for work, some for home life. For various reasons, looking at food blogs for people who have various intolerances: to dairy, to wheat, in some cases to lots more. I’m on the hunt for recipes. (I usually am, one way or another, but I don’t usually look online.) …
I always thought so. But then, that was how I experienced it, reading my way through as much as I could get my hands on when I was growing up. Words to make exciting things happen. Words to show complete understanding of how someone is feeling. Words that are more about feel than meaning – …