It’s March break here, so Son #2 is blissfully sleeping in until noon as I work. Yes, it’s business as usual at Get It Write central, although I do plan a couple of lunches out this week and will probably drive a couple of teenagers to go snowboarding. Oh yes, there is plenty of snow [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Keep an eye on your Googleganger
“Subprime” was the American Dialect Society‘s word of the year (yes, it happened in January so I’m late in posting about it), but the word that had my vote is “Googleganger.” Like doppleganger, it means a person with your name who shows up when you Google yourself. I was interested to see my own Googlegangers [...]
Grammartini, anyone?
Technical difficulties prevented me from posting last night about yesterday being National Grammar Day, so designated by the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (seriously!) and MSN Encarta. How to participate? The S for the P of GG recommends: Speak well! Write well! Oh, and have a grammartini: Pour two-and-a-half ounces of gin, a [...]
Blasting out the words
Here’s a great quote on writing (by Ernest Hemingway) that I ran across the other day: “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” Most writers I know would agree, although we’d all say that “easily and [...]
