Tag: publishing
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How to Write a Book by Accident
My latest book came into being by accident. The story behind that is fun (for me, anyway). Maybe even useful (for you and me). What really happened is that I was writing one book, but it ended up being two. The second one is the accident. Here’s the scoop: Sometime last year, I started writing…
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Vintage Words Back in Vogue
Vintage words are making a comeback. (Thanks to Richard Green for spotting an eye-opening article about this.) Words like “peruse”, “smitten”, “bespoke”, and “dapper” are rising sharply in popularity since year 2000 – the turn of the 21st century. The same is true of words like “thee”, “thou”, “fortnight”, “bedchamber”, “amongst”, and others that are…