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Sharp Words

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Reading and writing and words - general guff about all of these.

Added on: Dec 1st, 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: Sharp Words
Listed in: Writing Books
Tags: books reading writing technical writing words

Recent Posts

NaNoWriMo 2009 #3

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 15:53 in nanowrimo, challenges, difficulties

I wish I could claim that I’ve done nothing but write for the past 16 days and am therefore miles ahead on my NaNovel (like last year), but alas, it’s not the case. I’ve had a pretty crummy start to November, in fact, with several d...
NaNoWriMo 2009 #2

Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 14:49 in nanowrimo

Because I didn’t go out for Halloween this year, I thought I’d start writing at midnight. And I certainly wasn’t the only one. Six or seven us sat in the WriMo Ireland chat room and started off NaNoWriMo 2009 with a 10-minute word s...
Read: October 2009

Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 14:42 in terry pratchett, ian mcdonald, c j sansom, jim murdoch, kelley armstrong, connie willis, robin mckinley, my reading material, iain m banks

Thud!, Terry Pratchett. Own copy. Comfort reading while I was feeling lousy with a heavy cold. Feersum Endjin, Iain M Banks. Borrowed(?) copy, first read. Another delivery from my Dad. Not sure I liked this one – it exposed to me how much I ski...
NaNoWriMo 2009 #1

Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 16:22 in nanowrimo

As mentioned several times already in the past month or so, November is National Novel Writing Month. This will be my seventh year taking part, and hopefully, my fifth time reaching 50,000 words in 30 days. Actually, this year I’m aiming for 75...
Unintentional irony in shop names

Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 13:39 in words and phrases

This entry is part 19 of 19 in the series Technical Writing TuesdaysOne of my local pound shops (which no longer sells everything at a pound, but has things priced at £1.50 and £2 as well) has lately renamed itself. I can’t actually remember ...
A strange obsession with notebooks

Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 06:32 in notebooks, Waffle, obsessions

I love buying notebooks. I buy them even when I don’t need them. The photo shows the notebooks I found in my study. (Which admittedly is a large room, and I don’t think there are too many other notebooks lying around the house; maybe just...