Misused Phrases, Take 2 It does so irk me when people get these wrong, so we’re taking another crack at a few more misused phrases. When I have my editor hat on and see idioms and expressions mangled into…
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Editorial and personal commentary by JD Stanley. No journalism in this category – just rants, raves and me blathering-on.
It’s the new year and I was feeling a bit introspective since the calendar turned over. Like all creatives, I’m always looking for some inspirational words to keep my creative fires stoked. I take no credit for any of…
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Wrong pronunciation can lead to incorrect spelling The way words are pronounced doesn’t always correlate to the way they’re written. What I mean by that is, just because you hear a word pronounced one way, doesn’t mean you should…
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Misused phrases in writing can kill your credibility in a heartbeat. Popular phrases won’t go unnoticed, so it’s important to get these right. It doesn’t matter what field you’re in, when you use idioms and colloquialisms that have been…
Leave a CommentI never said I was mature, okay? Being slightly o.c.d. means that subconsciously, I understand that my mission in life is to organise the entire universe and everything in it. Due to this, and as you can imagine, I’m…
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Okay, let’s get this part out of the way… It appears I’m old. I never really think of myself this way, but I deduced this is true from what I see going on around me lately. I don’t understand…
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Story tellers are writers who wield their pens (er, or keyboards) with a brilliance and finesse that appears to defy logic and the writing rules in some cases. You’ve seen them. You know who they are. Wizards with a…
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Here’s the current state of the world, at least as far as freelance content writing… With the advent of the Internet, there rose a disturbing trend toward everyone and their brother growing to labour under the delusion they were…
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