Have you ever had a time in life when nothing goes right? When the life you have worked so hard to attain is falling to pieces? Outside of the realm we know and exist in, Dark Time threatens the reality of Paul Trevena and the others who live in his world. Trevena works at a…
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Confusing Words, Fiction Writing, Words, Writing
Confusing Words from Coalition to Commandeer
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• •Does chicken noodle soup help get rid of coals or colds? Would you store your valuables in a coffer or in a cougher? Is a football game played in a coliseum or a Colosseum? coalition, collation A coalition is a union or temporary alliance between persons, groups, factions, etc. A coalition between the two teams was needed…
Fiction Writing, Redundant Expressions, Words
Redundant Expressions from Cacophony of Sound to Cease and Desist
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Twain’s End – a Review
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• •Reading was a huge part of schooling my children, and we read many books by Mark Twain: Puddn’head Wilson, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and Life on the Mississippi. His life was something we didn’t study though. I knew that he didn’t like people…
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Confusing Words from Cited to Cold
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• •Does a bear have clause or claws? Would a scene in a book be climacteric, climactic, or climatic? Would you climb or clime a mountain? Should you heat your home with coal or with cole? Are snowy winter nights coaled or cold? cited, sighted, sited Cited is the past tense of cite. The attorney cited the…
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Confusing Words from Charted to Cite
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• •Would someone choose or chews a new car? Would one wear a coat when the weather is Chile, chili, chilli, or chilly? When you practice firing your gun, would you chute it or shoot it? charted, chartered If something has been charted, a course of action has been planned. The captain charted his route before he left…
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Monday, Sunday – a Review
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• •Monday, Sunday isn’t a book that every person will be able handle reading. This book explores the boundaries of sexual attraction between older females and teenage boys. To broach such a difficult, almost taboo, subject took skill. Fenton Grace did an amazing job writing this tale of love and betrayal. I knew before I got…
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Confusing Words from Cents to Charred
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• •Would you have cereal or serial for breakfast? Does a teacher use chalk or chock to write on the blackboard? Would chard or charred be served with dinner? cents, scents, sense A cent is 1/100th of one dollar, so cents would be more than one cent. Heather was so broke, she couldn’t even afford the pack of…