Jaye
Subscriber since: May 2008
About Me
Administrator and poet. Wife, mother of one and grandmother of three.
Not yet superannuated, but close.
Not yet superannuated, but close.
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Favorite Word:
superannuatedI first read it as a 7th grader in a Washington Irving essay about an upstate New York Christmas and used it in an essay I wrote in the 8th grade. He wrote of his "superannuated spinster aunts." I wrote of my "superannuated widowed grandmother." The word appealed to the little Latinist that I was then, and still appeals to the word person that I am. Moreover, I love agglutination.
Least Favorite Word:
awesomeA perfectly lovely word that has been made odious by overuse in (to my mind) unsuitable contexts.
Favorite Quote:
"The sun shone having no alternative on the nothing new."
- Samuel Beckett
Favorite Topics:
Fiction writing:
Rules for Writing Fiction
February 23, 2010
Get Ready for NaNoWriMo!
October 28, 2009
How to write:
The Power of Short Words
March 11, 2010
March 11, 2010
Tick-Tock: Productive Writing, Pomodoro Style
March 8, 2010
March 8, 2010
Language arts:
Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
March 15, 2010
Let Freedom Ring!
February 18, 2010
Reading:
Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
March 15, 2010
Reading What You Want
March 9, 2010
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
June 4, 2008
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