WORD PLAY!
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Loglines. Surely you’ve heard of these elusive creatures. The insidious brainworms that form innocently enough then propagate at the expense of your mental health. As you know, I’ve been working on submitting my manuscript(s). Submission requires a lot of research– where to send it, who is the right fit, why would they want my novel,
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Today’s blog is a glimpse into how my word-brain works. Please note that if you, too, were in 7th grade in 1979, you are probably of the generation that was taught some of the following language is offensive. Consider yourself warned. I remember being in the 7th grade and coming home from school one day
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I’m trying to pace myself– to keep Word of Art on your radar without beating you over the head with it. It’s just… I’M SO EXCITED! I have collected all of the canvases and will begin photographing them for the book soon. (these are just teasers!) For those of you unfamiliar, Word of Art
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Well folks, it’s been 26 weeks since I A is for Accepted the In Print ABC Blog Challenge. Half a year has passed! Who believes? And here we are at the End of the Alphabet… the letter Z, which is, according to my phonetic logic, unnecessary but kind of cool. In the 6 months’ time
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Eager to stay true to the In Print ABC Blog Challenge, I didn’t want to cheat and use a word like eXcitement or eXtreme or eXsanguination. I wanted to find a good, solid, and accurate X word. News flash—there aren’t any. Referring to the Ulojee blog, I resume my argument that X, although a fun letter,
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Faced with the letter U this morning, I ran through a series of U words… and eulogy kept popping into my head. Now I know eulogy is not technically a U word, but I have often thought it would be nice to correct the American English Alphabet and U is for Uulajee may be just the letter
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As in I provide the Random, you provide the Thoughts. I really want you to think about these things… Turkey Bacon What in Chemical Lab A are they doing to turkey to make it taste like bacon? And how can that process conceivably be healthy? Scented Deodorizer How is this possible? Wouldn’t the deodorizer, by
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An addendum to last week’s blog lends itself perfectly to this week’s letter of the In Print ABC Blog Post Challenge: My rant about the ass, you, and me of “obviously” stemmed from news coverage I caught the day of the Boston Marathon bombing. Even though at that point in the day very little actual
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I have come to realize that the word “obviously” is a lot like the word assume. Not in its meaning, but in that asses seem to use it. Do you know what I mean? Think about it—conjure a sentence which uses “obviously.” Isn’t there a tone? An underlying implication? Maybe it’s just me. Obviously, it’s
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