Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? You’re not alone. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Tranquil/Turbulent, Transpire, Take action to, Tenant, Triskaidekaphobia. Antonyms: words that express the opposite of other words can be hard to find, because thesauruses usually give no examples. When …
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Classics 208pps This classic of English Literature breaks all the rules of writing a novel; a bold step at the time of its creation. Viewpoints come and go, often without any real introduction, and sometimes within a paragraph. Passages develop and proceed, often without any indication of who we’re listening to in their internal dialogue, …
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Struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? You’re not alone. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Science Fiction, Somewhat, Sceptic/Denier, Set forth in, Solicitor. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Science Fiction: defined as a genre of …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words:  Quash, Refute, Quiet as a dormouse, Rückkehrunruhe, Reporter. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Quash: Roget lists three sub-headings; suppress, abrogate, and …
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85 pps Thriller/Espionage. This short is written in typical ‘thriller’ style, however, it also gives the reader some meat on the bones of the characters, which is great. The depiction of North Korea is chilling, and reads as though the author has first-hand experience. The protagonist, Milton, shows some concern for those who help him …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words:  Pathos, Prescribe/Proscribe, Pair of twins, Pope. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Pathos: is a quality exciting pity or sadness. Roget lists …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Off of, On the rocks, Offensively, Occhiolism, Obsolescence. Redundancies: words serving no purpose. In speech, they’re spacers, giving the speaker time to think. But in writing they slow …
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354 pps Genre Fiction/Political/Literary humour. Humour in any book is a gamble. We don’t all see with the same eyes. Whilst this novel rarely made me laugh out loud, I did smile and grin a lot, so it was a positive experience. That it managed this while dealing with such issues as government incompetence (this …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me,too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Great Minds Think Alike…, Nod the head, Not in my backyard, Nodus Tollens, Nondescript, A slightly different approach this week: we don’t want this to be too predictable, after all. …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Melodramatic, Momentarily, More perfect, Mostly, Mokita, M.P. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Melodramatic: Roget lists only 3 headings for this; …
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Subtitled ‘Beyond Mount Olympus’, this small book is a short introduction to the broad and complex area of the Greek Myths. A bold undertaking to attempt to condense centuries of myth and legend, featuring a myriad heroes, gods, goddesses, nymphs and satyrs, this slim volume does its best. Inevitably it is superficial and, at times, …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Loathsome/Pleasant, Less/Fewer, Lap of luxury, Limply, Lawyer Antonyms: words that express the opposite of other words can be hard to find, because thesauruses usually give no examples. When …
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393 pps Humour/Puzzles & Games/ Subtitled ‘The Noticeably Stouter Edition’, this book of humorously presented erudition is a gem. Clearly, a book to be dipped into, rather than read at one sitting, it is nevertheless addictive. Those who know the TV show, first hosted by the inimitable Stephen Fry and latterly by the equally unique …
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A truly gothic and demonic horror story. The narrator’s voice carries all the bile, disapproval, confidence and uncertainty of the youth well. This is a short but powerful read and one to produce nightmares if read too close to bedtime in a lonely place. The conflict of denial against the reality of the situation leaves …
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This is both a self-improvement and inspirational book with a very real difference. That difference is crucial. James Miller is a man on a mission. A mission I’m utterly at one with. Our lives are governed from birth, throughout education and maturity, to the final day, by dogma, myth and legend posing as truth. Although …
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