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Slogans: Do They Get You Elected?
This week we are focusing on Election 2012! Today’s Amaze-ing Words Wednesday topic is campaign slogans, and for Deep-Fried Friday I will be interviewing Piper Bayard and Kristen Lamb, presidential and vice-presidential candidates with a marvelous slogan and governing ideas you’ll want … Continue reading
Raising Stakes: A Bible Story
Welcome to Deep-Fried Friday. Today the subject is about writing and raising the stakes for your fictional characters. I recently finished reading Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass, which I definitely recommend for writers. In one of the chapters, … Continue reading
Posted in Deep-Fried Friday
Tagged Book of Job, Donald Maass, fiction, Julie Glover, novel stakes, stakes, writing, Writing the Breakout Novel
16 Comments
From Model T to Mustang: Car Names
One of the recurring premises of Amaze-ing Words Wednesday is that names matter to us. I’ve covered our own personal names, town names, and rock band names. Today we’re looking at the names of cars. The first mass-produced car was … Continue reading
Posted in Amazing Words Wednesday
Tagged 2012 cars, Author, automobiles, car names, fun with words, Julie Glover, names, words
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Help, I’m Addicted
Today’s Deep-Fried Friday has a very personal tone. You see, I have an addiction and need help. Ever since my college years, I have fondly clutched one form of Coca-Cola or another in my hands and sipped with sweet satisfaction. … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Author, Coca-Cola, Julie Glover, soda consumption
32 Comments
Where Did That Come From? Toponyms
On Amaze-ing Words Wednesday, we enter the sometimes confusing but always intriguing world of the English language. One of the curiosities of language is how words are created and evolve. The study of word origins is etymology, and today’s topic … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, etymology, fun with words, John Bemelmans Marciano, Julie Glover, language, toponymity, toponyms, word origins
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Are You a Believer or a Skeptic?
Skeptic: 1. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual. 2. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.from http://www.dictionary.com, based on Random House Dictionary … Continue reading
Posted in Deep-Fried Friday
Tagged Abominable Snowman, Aliens, Area 51, Big Foot, Catie Rhodes, Chupacabra, Debora Dale, folklore myths, Ghosts, Hauntings, Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, Roswell, Sasquatch, Stacy Green, UFOs
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Poetry You Actually Like
After my Limericks post, I realized how true it is that people who swear they don’t like poetry actually might. Plenty of people enjoy limericks, and that’s poetry. What other poetry masquerades as something fun rather than something you must … Continue reading
What Would You Put in Your Fiction Museum?
I have probably mentioned before – maybe a dozen times by now – that Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favorite films. (Ignore all sequels; by comparison, they suck.) In Raiders, an object takes center stage as … Continue reading
Lining Up at the Movies
What primarily fascinates me about language is how by simply choosing and ordering words, we can convey something meaningful to someone else. That fact is the foundation of speaking and writing. Sometimes, however, what’s said moves beyond meaningful and becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged film, Julie Glover, memorable movie quotes, movie lines, movie quotations, movie quotes, movies, quotes
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