To what lengths would you go to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex? Would you dye your teeth black? Down through the years, women have bound their feet or worn corsets. Today, some still wear lip plates or neck rings. Here in America, many wear high heels. But women aren’t the only sex to endure discomfort to…
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Fiction Writing, Grammar & Punctuation, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
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• •October is National Sarcastic Awareness Month, but people use sarcasm every day of the year. How often are you sarcastic? What is sarcasm? Sarcasm, according to the dictionary, is harsh or bitter derision. It is irony or the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. When used…
Fiction Writing, Household, Product Reviews, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Talking Trash
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• •Trash cans haven’t always been around for families to dispose of their trash in. So what did they do with their garbage? That depended on where they lived. Farmers and their families turned food scraps into pig slop. Of course, pigs will eat anything, even dead bodies, so who knows what was fed to them.…
Collective Nouns, Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
The Shoebill Murder Bird
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• •Shoebill murder birds don’t even look real to me, but they are. They can only be found in various parts of Africa. Their favorite places to hang out are in dense tropical marshes, swamps, and wetlands. So the chances of you running across this real-life hippogriff in a dark alley are nonexistent. That is comforting.…
Fiction Writing, Suffering for Beauty, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Suffering for Beauty – High Heels
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• •Fiction Writing, Words, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Snow By Any Other Name. . .
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• •Snow is beautiful when it first falls. When its pristine whiteness covers everything, it creates a gorgeous winter wonderland. Unfortunately, it has to melt, and when it does, the beautiful winter wonderland turns into a dirty mess that is not pleasing to look at. Sposh, soft slushy mud or snow, is one of the words…
Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Cats and Empty Boxes
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• •Fiction Writing, Phobias, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Phalangophobia and Other Phobias
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Fall Festivals That Celebrate Animals
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Full Wolf Moon: Does it Make You Crazy?
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• •Werewolves are imaginary creatures—or are they—who are human by day but turn into wolves on nights there is a full moon, the time when the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun’s rays. Many legends exist about these terrifying creatures who love to feast on the flesh of babies and corpses. A dominant…