Better ways to write (almost) everything
Does this sound like you? Need to blog for your regular readers but don’t want to fight with the endless recipes, decoration ideas, gift ideas and special offers?
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Ideas for ‘the morning after’ food and drink [Read more…]
Particularly in Canada, the USA and to a lesser extent Mexico, families share this day of gratitude for a good harvest and year. It’s a long-standing tradition going back hundreds of years and has become as comfortable and well-loved part of life as a pair of cozy slippers.
Our Canadian Thanksgiving dinner this year (second Monday of October) … in Leicestershire, England
Today, however, it’s interesting to see how much the element of gratitude is taking hold within the context of positive psychology, influencing mindfulness and other techniques and therapies to help us cope with modern life. Is that really what we need? [Read more…]
Further to the popularity of my first list of new words for you to use to enhance your writing, here are some more that will bring further sparkles to everything from your business emails to your laundry lists. Enjoy.
Infernolising, n. Psychotherapists’ description of a patient who rages and vents in anger to the point of spitting fire.
Baby Bloomers, n, pl. Septuagenarians who have had more than three facelifts.
Behindfulness, n. Being aware that your butt lift makes you look like a Dromedary camel on its hind legs despite the surgery having cost you 150,000 BRL reais in a sweaty São Paulo clinic.
Bentagon, n. Crooked pentagon. [Read more…]
One of my former copywriting colleagues was having a good old bitch earlier on Messenger about not having ideas for their next blog. I hit the roof.
Autumn/fall and winter are a great time for festivals – and allied blogging.
“There’s so much to blog about at this time of the year, you could write one a day from now until New Year’s and not cover the same topic twice,” I rattled off on the keyboard chipping my newly-polished nails.
Let’s go back a few weeks (save those for next year) and check what there has been, as well as what’s to come before we pop the corks for New Year’s 2020. Here are just a few topics that can be triggered by associations with some of the world’s special days, and I know these ideas will trigger some more for you. [Read more…]
by Suzan St Maur
The gravel hitting the window caused me to wake with a start. I curled back the curtain and looked out. Silly lad. I silently raised the sash.
“I thought you were going back to the base tonight!”
“I was. I did.” Will stage-whispered. “Then I went out again. Back door, so to speak.”
“Ooh, naughty.”
“It gets naughtier. [Read more…]
Her raucous breathing had been rattling the room for nearly 24 hours. I lay back on the garden sun lounger chair beside her bed and dimmed the bedside light. Just as my eyelids started to flutter, the clattering stopped. Started again. Stopped. Did not start again.
She was talking to my long-dead grandmother.
I got up and kissed her forehead. “Là voilà,” I said through my sobs, without looking behind me.
“D’accord, there she is…” said the voice.
“Granny? C’est bien toi?” My voice faded to a whisper, but it didn’t matter. [Read more…]
Suzan St Maur
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Some very good points here about the importance of improving writing skills in the workplace - which leads to, amongst other benefits, improved customer service.
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By Allison Horak -- Supervisors often feel their employees can’t write well. How about you? Do you spend time correcting the same mistakes repeatedly for your employees? One way to address this issue is to carve out time for coaching, especially for employees whose work involves a lot of writing.....
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