Experts Say

 

The convenience and ubiquity of texting should make it easier to compose a message that reads like an actual sentence rather than as a secret code, right? Not so fast. A recent study reveals that many people see proper grammar and punctuation in text messaging as classic jerk behavior.

Experts Say That Periods in Text Messages Come Across as ‘Standoffish,’ ‘Insincere’ | PJ Media

*blink*  What?  Jerk behavior?  For using proper grammar?! 

Oh that makes me very unhappy!  Grammar nerds don’t want to be perceived as being jerks at all! 

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40 Words

I found this article a few weeks back.  It was fascinating really.  How many times have you ever said, “I wish I knew what to call this feeling … “?  Well, here are some words that might help.  I know going down the list, there were a few I identified with, especially this one:

Monachopsis

n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach—lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you’d be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.

I confess, if I could only have one word to describe my entire life, it would be that one.  Perhaps on my tombstone, I’ll have “No Longer Feeling Monachopsis!” engraved on it. 

In any case, I’m thinking I should add The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows to my InoReader. 

Enjoy!  And may you find a word of your very own. 

Exulansis: when there’s not an actual word for what you’re trying to explain. We feel more than we have the language to articulate and express, which is in itself profoundly frustrating. People work through emotions by being able to identify them and use them as signals. A lot of the time, we’re left in the dark. Enter the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the brainchild of writer John Koenig, who is here to give you words for the feelings you may not have even known you were having. Here are 40 of them:

40 Words For Emotions You’ve Felt, But Couldn’t Explain | Thought Catalog

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Commonly Misunderstood

I found a nice link about commonly misunderstood words and phrases.  It’s a great list and it really ought to go viral, based on some of the things I’ve seen around the ‘net.  It’s like people aren’t being taught basic English and grammar anymore!

There’s the link below if you’d like a copy of it for your own blog.  I created a page to it here on my blog so I’ll always have one around.  Easier than trying to remember where I bookmarked it, lol. 

33 Commonly Misunderstood Words & Phrases (Infographic)

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Writers Character Name Generator

My daughter loves to make up stories, and she is constantly on the prowl for new and unusual names.  This name generator sometimes helps her find something, and I thought it might help you, too.  :)

 

This character name generator produces fictional names to use in stories.

Source: Writers Character Name Generator – put a name to the new person in your story

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#StumbleUpon

In my email notifications today.

AAARRRGGGHHH!

#StumbleUpon, you’re hurting my eyes!  Why did you do that?!

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J. Dane Tyler | I Don’t Have Nightmares … I CREATE Them.

Read what my favorite author has been up to lately and why writing is like new for him!

 

Some of you know – because you follow my personal blog – that I’ve started a new book as of April 17, 2015.

What those only following this blog won’t know, is I’ve done it using a new (to me) method of writing which was aptly described by author Dean Wesley Smith as “Writing into the Dark.”

Mr. Smith blogged about the process over the course of six or seven weeks, and I must say, I followed with great interest. I’d been migrating through a lot of different “techniques” and “methods” for writing, most of which focused on planning.

I discovered outlining and planning according to a four-part story structure map back in 2009. I’ve blogged extensively about it. Raved about it. Ranted about it. Made mockery of any writer unwilling to try it. And then I stopped being able to write because of it.

It’s a long story, but …

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