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Passive or Private?
It was a blast to be teaching again via Learning Laneway. I presented my 'Free Your Creative Voice & Impact Your Readers' introductory session online a couple of weeks ago, and it was so good to be sharing this material again after quite a long time out of...
Free Your Creative Writing Voice
I am enlightened to once again be offering an intro to my Creative Writing course! "Enlightened?" you ask. Well, I'm also doing a deep dive into language and how it's been used to control us over the last few hundred years. It was pointed out to me that the prefix...
Christmas smashed, New Year saturated!
After a beautiful day with family on the 25th December, my husband and I settled down to watch a movie just after 8.00pm. Lightning was flashing outside and we were looking forward to some rain for the garden, but we were not expecting what was about to happen. About...
W.H.O.’s on First?
You know that great comedy routine by Abbott & Costello in the black & white era?("Who's on first, What's on second and I-don't-know's on third...") It's fairly straightforward by comparison with the trick being played on us by the W.H.O.,which is...
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Playing with [V] words
Early in the Plandemic I wrote a blog called 'The Iris and the Axe (just add the Vs)'; it's time now for 'The Oice', only this title doesn't work as well. (That said, it's only a short distance to 'oink', which is not far off the point…) Piggybank image courtesy...
The Shadow of ‘Should’
I'm the sort of person who, if told to go 'this way', will go 'that way'. For example, when my parents wanted to buy me a geared bike to ride to school and I, the 'I'll-do-it-my-way' teenager, chose a manual bike. Probably because I liked the colour. (Bright...