A good freelance writer knows her job is to get the message across-poetically, or succinctly depending on the client. We use words to shape opinion, bring in customers, and to market a new idea in a novel and compelling way. Our challenge is to craft the right statement for the right occasion. There are so [...]
I’m joining in with Jillsy Girl’s One Word Wednesday today. The word this week is Balance. I can think of any number of ways to approach balance from the personal and the professional. What speaks the loudest to me is finding that balance between the two. As a freelance writer, the balance is all up [...]
The word is wish and the challenge, at Jillsy Girl’s blog, was to interpret the word in a blog post. I chose to do a quick post on the Disney song, When You Wish Upon a Star and much conversation ensued. And, I’ve been thinking about wishing ever since. I’ve wished for things in my [...]
I love this video, as much for the visuals as the way that Bruce challenges us to look at the way we speak in this day and age. In this very cool piece of typography, he explores the lack of authority and conviction today. “I implore, entreat, challenge you to speak with conviction.” A good [...]
Today I trade in words for colors. On Fridays I work in a needlepoint shop;needlework is one of my other passions, I’ve been stitching since I was a teenager. Here I wait on retail clients but it’s play as well as work. A customer comes in with a piece of needlepoint, a design painted on [...]
It’s One Word Wednesday, over at JillsyGirl, where we are invited to be creative-each week a new word gives us some direction and the opportunity to play. Today’s word is passion. Passion is a loaded word, normally our thought goes right to the sexual when we think of passion. And, according to the dictionary there [...]
Why do we write? Is it simply to convey a story or to seduce and lure the reader with magic? We all have the power to play and entice with words, to draw our reader closer to our story-whether we’re selling carpet or writing works of literary fiction. The key is to do it well. [...]
Thanks to a friend for sharing these. My apologies for not providing a direct link, can’t find the article. There are a few I absolutely love: Pokemon-Rastafarian proctologist, #5- Bozone is perfect. They’re all great and show what the mind can do with wordplay. The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take [...]
I have 3 blogs of a very different nature but today they are all going to address the same topic, from three different angles. The idea came to me after reading a blog by SaucyB, Life and Times of a Self-Proclaimed Saucy Bitch, a fellow participant in the 31 Days to Better Blogging challenge. Day [...]
I recently received a gift from a dear friend of mine, a book she found in her parents’ house as they were getting the house cleared and ready to be sold. When she saw the book, my name came to mind and she saved it for me. It’s called Synonyms and Antonyms by Edith B. [...]
