Category: Wonderings
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Copy Editing My Own Thoughts
My head is constantly buzzing with copywriting. I find myself rebalancing the clauses of my THOUGHTS as I walk to work each day. Rephrasing emails I’ve already sent. Editing ads, editing signs…even editing conversations I overhear. When I first started writing websites I was afflicted with a disease that made me write headings and calls…
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Writing Like Hemingway
I am always searching for new things to shock me out of slumping into a writing rut. For three years, I’ve been decrying long sentences, impenetrable paragraphs and bitch-ass mitigating adverbs. This is because I’m primarily a digital copywriter – and the internet lingers for no man. Last week I stumbled upon Hemingway, an app…
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The Saga of the Boots – ALERT, BORING TO MOST HUMANS
So, the ASOS boots sucked. Predictable. So I’ve been scouring the internets for some more likely creatures, and have come across THESE: I know, I know. Bit bloody GROWN UP, non? I’ll agree that they are. But I’m not getting any younger or hipper so perhaps the time has come for WARDROBE STAPLES. Ugh. I…
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Slow Writing Again
It’s just that this is as good a place as any, non? Nobody likes going home alone. It’s a fact: there’s not a soul alive who trudges home to an empty nest with lightness in their heart. If I may be honest – and I’m nothing if not honest – some solitary nights I’d rather…
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Monday Morning Words
“Don’t go down there”, she warned; “Don’t go down there ever, my boy.” I was two-thirds ready to heed her when I suddenly realised where I’d heard her voice before. The inn at Milton Abbas – the twisted crone with no fresh lemon slices! I turned to the woman and bellowed, “Oh, down there you…
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