If something is high-class or fashionable, is it haute or oat? Does a hawk or a hock fly through the air? Is hay or hey a type of grass that is used as fodder? When you cure a sickness, do you heal or heel? haute or haut, oat Both haute and haut mean high-class or…
Category: Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Ruled by the Heart – Guest Post by Lynne Waite Chapman
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• •Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Women Sleuths, Words
Heart Strings – a Review
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• •If someone plays on your heart strings, they are attempting to get sympathy from you. If someone tugs at your heart strings or pulls on your heart strings, they are trying to cause strong feelings of affection or sympathy. In Heart Strings. Lauren is an aspiring writer who has a curiosity that never stops. Never…
Fiction Writing, Holidays, January Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Appreciate a Dragon Day & Other Zany January Holidays
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• •Fiction Writing, Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Creepy Things I Have Experienced
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• •Confusing Words, Fiction Writing, Words, Writing
Confusing Words from Hail to Hart
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• •Fiction Writing, Holidays, Publishing, Writing
New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
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• •People have been making New Year’s resolutions since the time of the ancient Babylonians. The most popular resolution then was not to quit smoking or to lose weight but to return something borrowed from a friend the year before. Times have certainly changed. In the today’s world, New Year’s is an excuse to party. Lots of…
Christmas Articles, Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
The Christmas Spider
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• •What does an eight-legged creepy crawly have to do with Christmas? In Australia, a country famous for its deadly spiders, a Christmas spider really does exist. This timid spider is harmless to humans, but its unusual appearance does tend to frighten. Why is the oddly shaped arachnid called a Christmas spider? There are several species…
Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Historical Fiction, Reading, Romance, Suspense/Thrillers
Essence of Time – a Review
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• •Imagine your life and your marriage are perfect. You find out you are carrying the child that you and your husband have longed for. Then the military calls your one true love away. That leaves you alone to take care of the farm. How will you survive until he returns? In eighteenth-century Kentucky, Peter and…
Book Reviews, Christmas Articles
Winter’s Silence – a Review
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• •Winter’s Silence is the story of Emily, a six-year-old Jewish girl, who is going through a really rough time. She is a very creative, intelligent child. A large portion of her time is spent in daydreams, the only way she can escape all of the turmoil surrounding her. Through her imagination, she becomes a North…