Only in my dreams
How do I know when it’s time to write a shiny new story?
When I start dreaming scenes.
Seriously. No bull, that’s what happens.
And when those dream-scenes start crossing...
Word of the Week
Kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
OW! That hurt :-(
This Word of the Week has been brought to you courtesy of Kim Koning, via Facebook — thanks, Kim!
Have you ever looked at a word you’ve just written (or typed) and the more...
Gimme a… B??
My latest Word of the Week comes to you courtesy of The Economist. And when DH first read the excerpt out to me, we were rubbing our hands in not-so-mock glee, believing we’d...
Flex it, baby!
It’s been a while since I featured a Word of the Week here on my humble website/blog. It’s been a busy, harrowing month… and I console myself that I’m pretty...
No, Google, I do not mean “fabulous”.
It’s not often I come across a word I can’t find the meaning of in any of my dictionaries — not that I have a bookcase full of dictionaries or anything. But I do have...
Lost in translation
Many years ago, shortly after I got heavily into romance and was buying heaps of US-published books, I read the phrase, “He patted her on the fanny.” It wasn’t the...
The case of the disappearing ‘dis’
When I first met DH, he owned just about every Robert Heinlein book ever written. Being a huge fan of fantasy and lighter SciFi at the time, I dived right in. Bliss!
What I love about...
Lording it over someone
Usually I have a plethora of weird and wonderful words running round in my brain, just clamoring for the opportunity to be included in Word of the Week. Or, I’m reading a book,...
