Meggie
Subscriber since: September 2016
Location: Eureka, CA
About Me
Hmmm... What do any of us say about ourselves? "Hi, I'm so and so and I love to write and yada-yada..." OK...In addition to writing I'm also an artist and photographer but retired from the "Happy Snappies" business for a few years now. Art is multimedia in that I work in several genres which translates into whatever I feel up to at the moment😁 I've been writing one way or another almost my entire life and developed a magazine focusing on music (lasted til funding ran out, about three years) which truly honed my writing skills. Now I write about whatever interests me at the time for myself and the amusement of my friends. Sometimes (rather amazingly) they even like what I write. As to the rest of this, more later😵!
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Favorite Word:

beautiful
Speaks for itself, doesn't it? Just look at all the splendiferous words which emanate from it?!
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Least Favorite Word:

debt
Obvious... And I don't like ever being in it.
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Favorite Quote:

"I have to think about this"

Favorite Topics:

Language:

Fiercely Real Humanism and Other Hooey in the Physical Distancing Age
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New Virus, New Words
March 30, 2020

Usage:

Comparative Nonsense
November 1, 2019 - 5 Comments
Unexpected Cousins
April 1, 2019 - 8 Comments

Words:

Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
January 10, 2020 - 1 Comment
Comparative Nonsense
November 1, 2019 - 5 Comments

Writing:

Is Lack of Reflection Sabotaging your Writing?
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Why Writers Should Use a Secret Sauce: Tracking
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Books:

Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020 - 2 Comments
Inspiration to All
December 10, 2019 - 1 Comment

Writer's block:

Four Ways to Build Mental Toughness for Writing
December 23, 2019 - 7 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019 - 2 Comments

Reading:

How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018 - 5 Comments
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018 - 2 Comments

Vocabulary:

A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
January 11, 2017
Getting the Low-down on Up-classify
July 14, 2016 - 2 Comments

Naming:

New Virus, New Words
March 30, 2020
Does It Matter What We Call a Disease?
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Creativity:

Self-Partnered to Poppycock
December 11, 2019 - 5 Comments
How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments

Word Origins:

New Virus, New Words
March 30, 2020
Does It Matter What We Call a Disease?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 23, 2020 - 12 Comments

Grammar:

I May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like
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"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019 - 2 Comments