A couple more words I see people mixing up all the time: Averse and Adverse While similar in some ways, they are not interchangeable. First, let’s look at averse. According to Merriam-Webster online: Function: adjective Etymology: Latin aversus, past participle of avertere Date: 1597 : having an active feeling of repugnance or distaste —usually used …
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Word Usage and Other Disasters
Of/Have This is one I’ve started seeing used incorrectly fairly often in print. Confusion around the use of these two in phrases such as ‘should have,’ ‘would have,’ ‘could have,’ no doubt arises from the contracted forms: should’ve would’ve could’ve Now I see in print “I should of” or “We could of” when no doubt …
Age Appropriate Music
For NaNoWriMo I’m beginning the prequel to the novel I was working on before I was swept away by my vampire novel back in April or May. Confused? Ok, here it is: Up until I got the inspiration for the vampire novel I was writing a supernatural/magical realism kind of story (although the realism seemed …
That’s All There Is To It
People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it. – …
My Macabre Muse
It’s hard to get into the mood for gloomy, macabre writing when the sun is shining and it’s 80 degrees outside. I have to play tricks on myself and mentally travel to abandoned castles being lashed by violent thunderstorms, fog-bound moors, cemeteries with dead trees standing in silhouette under a full moon. Today I went …
Welcome
So, here I am. I’m still trying to figure out how to work this new site. It was so easy at WordPress.com, this is ever so slightly trickier. But it’s mine, all mine! More later when I think of something to say.