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The FreelanceWritingGigs Blog Is Expanding

Posted on November 04, 2008
Deb Ng, the founder of FreelanceWritingGigs.com emailed me today letting me know that they are expanding the blog. Basically they will have six blogs inside the main website, each featuring a different topic.

Hoist With His Own Petard

Posted on November 03, 2008
I think Keith Olbermann may have had something to do with popularizing this Shakespearean expression. In July 2005 Olbermann, writing about the London bus bombing, wrote July 21st may turn out to be the day the terrorists began to blow themselves up ? hoist themselves, as the Middle English phrase goes, ?on their own petard...

Here Come the Candidates

Posted on November 03, 2008
The first Tuesday in November is known as Election Day in the United States. It is the day on which political candidates are voted in or out of office. The word candidate is an example of how ancient customs become embedded in language. In ancient Rome, a person running for an elected office wore a brightly [...

Word of the Day: Stentorian

Posted on November 01, 2008
Stentorian [st?n-tôr'?-?n] refers to something extremely loud or powerful, usually a voice. Stentor was a herald in the Iliad, and he had a powerful voice. That is where the term comes from.

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Apophenia ? Filling the Blanks

Posted on October 31, 2008
Readers' comments on What Does [Sic] Mean? point up the curious feature of the human mind that infuses meaning in the meaningless.

Need Help Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly?

Posted on October 30, 2008
No writing tip on this post, so feel free to skip it. If you have a blog or website where you publish your writings, however, you could be interested on the topic. You probably know that search engines (e.g., Google and Yahoo!) are the main way that people use to information these days right?

Pronoun Use is NOT Rocket Science

Posted on October 30, 2008
What is so hard about knowing when to use I and when to use me? Why can't professional reporters and TV script writers get it straight?

Writing Resources for Teenagers

Posted on October 29, 2008
I know from the comments that lots of teens read Daily Writing Tips, and as a former teenage writer myself, I wanted to offers some of my tips and favourite resources.

Word of the Day: Chagrin

Posted on October 29, 2008
Chagrin [sh?-gr?n'] literally refers to the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather. It is widely used in a figurative way, however, where it means a strong embarrassment that is caused by failure, disappointment or by an awkward circumstance.

They, their, them, eggs and freckles!

Posted on October 28, 2008
Sharon's post The Scandinavian Connection lists fifteen words, all nouns, that have come into English from Swedish and Norwegian. The earliest word in her list, flounder, came into English in 1592. The most recent, quisling, was coined as recently as 1940.

Writing a Thank You Note

Posted on October 27, 2008
Sending a thank you note is always a lovely gesture ? and often an expected one. I?m sure that when you were a child, your parents encouraged (or forced) you to write thank you notes for birthday and Christmas presents. As an adult, you should still make a point of writing a thank you note to express gratitude in a number of situations.

Punctuation Game

Posted on October 25, 2008
So you think you know your punctuation? Now you can put it to the test. Eats, Shoots and Leaves, reviewed by Maeve in July, has a punctuation game online.

Autumn or Fall?

Posted on October 24, 2008
Why can?t Americans admit they have rewritten the English language. Fall for Autumn, color for colour. --Diane, comment on Among/Amongst Changing colour to color can be blamed on American dictionary maker Noah Webster, but Fall for Autumn deserves another look.

Vocabulary Test 2 Is Live!

Posted on October 23, 2008
It was about time to release another one of our tests, right? We are going back to the vocabulary test, with 20 new words. If you have been reading the blog for a while, you shouldn't have a problem scoring a 100%!

Word of the Day: Kernel

Posted on October 22, 2008
Kernel [kûr'n?l] is a noun that refers to edible substance that you find inside nuts, or to a grain or seed enclosed in a husk.

Ruining Your Writing by Cheap Blogging

Posted on October 22, 2008
Ali recently gave us five reasons why blogging improves your writing, and I don't disagree with any of them. What ruined my writing ability (temporarily, I hope) was not the chance to write regularly or to get instant feedback. So what ruined it?

What Kind of Competition Do You Want Next?

Posted on October 21, 2008
The first Short Story Competition was a success. We had almost 80 entries, and on the grand final more than 5,000 people took the time to cast a vote on their favorite story. Both competitors and readers sent us several emails mentioning that they loved the competition, and that they were looking forward to the next one.

Using the Bible for Writing Ideas

Posted on October 21, 2008
Dwayne Phillips commented on my post How to Generate Hundreds of Writing Ideas to say: I find lots of short story ideas in the Bible. As someone once said, ?The copyright has expired, so you are in no danger.?

What Does [sic] Mean?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Samm [sic] asks "What does [sic] mean? Sic in square brackets is an editing term used with quotations or excerpts. It means "that's really how it appears in the original."

Book Review: Save The Cat

Posted on October 18, 2008
One of the best books I've read on writing recently has been Save The Cat by Blake Snyder. Snyder is a screenwriter who has has his share of both failures and successes and he shares what he has learned about the way to construct the perfect script.

NaNoWriMo ? What It Is and Why You Should Join In

Posted on October 17, 2008
If you?re an aspiring novelist, but have yet to write your masterpiece, you might want to consider joining in with NaNoWriMo.

Write About What You Know

Posted on October 16, 2008
For thirty years, the mid-term exam for Dr. McAnelly's Biblical Literature class was always the same essay question: "Describe the wandering journeys of the Apostle Paul." So a college football fullback and his roommate decided they wouldn't study anything else, thereby leaving them more time for other attractive pursuits...

Word of the Day: Daunt

Posted on October 16, 2008
Daunt [(dônt] is a verb meaning "to discourage, to frighten." The adjective daunting usually has the sense of "intimidating."

Dial One, Followed by the Octothorpe

Posted on October 15, 2008
Everyone knows the cross-hatched symbol #. For some it's the "pound sign" because it has been used by greengrocers as a symbol for "pound" on the little signs pricing fruit and vegetables: .75# (seventy-five cents a pound).

Collaborative Fiction: Writing and Gaming Online

Posted on October 14, 2008
I?ve been thinking recently about the ways in which writing and gaming are mingled online, after a Daily Writing Tips reader wrote in to introduce us to a site which he and his brother have recently launched, called ?Vote Pages?. This site aims to make the writing process both collaborative and game-like:

Know Your Eschatology

Posted on October 13, 2008
Political discussion these days often slips into the area of religion, particularly a belief in something called the "Rapture." This might be a good time to look at some Christian theological terms and their definitions.

The -escent Suffix

Posted on October 11, 2008
My five year old is now reading fluently and as a result is asking all sorts of questions about the meanings of words. The other day, she asked why fluorescent bulbs were so named and I realized that I had absolutely no idea, so I set out to find out more about this suffix...

Dialogue Writing Tips

Posted on October 10, 2008
Some writers love dialogue. They find that they have a natural ear for how different characters speak, and that the dialogue races along, carrying the story with it. Others struggle over every word of a dialogue-heavy scene, feeling that the characters sound stiff and unlifelike.

Your Ideal Reader

Posted on October 09, 2008
If you?re reading Daily Writing Tips, you?re probably a writer of some description. And being a writer means, in the vast majority of cases, that you have ? or at least want to have ? readers.

WhiteSmoke Software Review

Posted on October 08, 2008
I found WhiteSmoke very easy to install and get started with. It checks the grammar, spelling and readability of everything that you write (it will do this whilst running in the background, or you can load up the program directly).

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