Category Archives: Words

Books About Writing That Are On My Bookshelf

  • On Writing, Stephen King
  • How Not To Write A Novel, Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman
  • The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers, Betsy Lerner
  • Writer’s Market
  • Revision & Self-Editing, Bell
  • The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters, Burt-Thomas
  • Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us, Jessica Page Morrell
  • Characters & View Point, Orson Scott Card (Elements of Fiction Writing series)
  • Description, Monica Wood  (Elements of Fiction Writing series)

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Misspoken Phrases That Drive Me Crazy

  1. My’s well     (Might as well)
  2. Cool, calm, and collective     (Cool, calm, & collected)
  3. For all intensive purposes     (For all intents and purposes)
  4. Old-timer’s disease     (Alzheimer’s disease)
  5. Irregardless     (Regardless)
  6. I could care less     (I couldn’t care less)
  7. Cactuses     (Cacti)
  8. Nip it in the butt   (Nip it in the bud)

 

39 Hilariously Misspelled Tattoo Fails

Tuesday Twos-day

  • two of a kind
  • tea for two
  • two shakes of a lamb’s tail
  • bicycle built for two
  • two by four
  • two step
  • two is company
  • two peas in a pod
  • a one, and a two…
  • put two and two together
  • catch 22
  • two cents worth
  • goody two shoes
  • two heads are better than one
  • two wrongs don’t make a right
  • take two aspirin and call me in the morning
  • terrible twos
  • kill two birds with one stone
  • two can play
  • two to tango

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Wednesday Words

When willingly working
while weirdly wired
we wondered
would wagon wheels work?

We whispered wildly
whilst whipping whisks
which wouldn’t wreck
winter’s wonderlands
whether wanted, wasted, wrangled, Wisconsinized.

What will
wacky workmen wreck?

Wonderfully wide-eyed
we waited
wanton, willful, wistful
watching warblers with wings