Another Word: The Exceptional Smurfette,or Being One of the Guys as a Superpower by Ekaterina SediaThis essay is a result of some thoughts that occurred during one of the weekly FeministSF chats on Twitter, when we were discussing exceptionality of female characters in urban fantasy novels—...
I have a couple friends who use a “Six Word Saturday” prompt for their blogs. Sometimes, a six-word sentence leads to a longer discourse; at other times, six concise and meaningful words are the extent of their writing for that day. When I sit down to write, I find it hard to be...
This got me thinking: I don’t need my word processor to design the novel for me, but it would be interesting if the program suggested places where Chekov’s Gun would add to the pleasure of the plot and helped me implement the changes. There are many other similar writing techniques and...
Another war, another reason to get US out!(THE LAST WORD)(Libyan international military intervention)(Essay)McManus, John F
Promulgating this idea can create a stronger bond within the public and provide a mechanism for the people to work together when government is too incompetent to act. It can inspire our society to break free from the yoke of apathy and help propel our communities to move first for the ...
Let's say you're taking the IELTS, the TOEFL tests, you're writing your essay. You're running out of time, you're not thinking properly, you're a little bit frazzled, you need a transition word -- always use "another".For example, "Another reason the internet is good, is because...
and put his job in jeopardy. I could rearrange these two sentences into one, but I don't want to. I want to have this idea, because this is adding to this. I have one idea, I have another idea, but they'...
-“Self empowerment” (she says) is another word for narcissism. -Feminists have adopted money as a measure of value, and hence applaud women getting into highly paid CEO jobs, despite this doing nothing to change the economic system as a whole. Women with good jobs can now buy their way...
I picked up after the first ring when my editor Edgar Reewright phoned me last week, because I figured he was anxious to discuss the essay for Yeah, Another Blogger that I’d emailed him the day before. “Hello, Edgar,” I said. “How goes it? What do you think of the article?
As we enter this second year of “COVID Purgatory” (for some, “hell”; but for no one, “heaven”), we continue our downward spiral below Mr Mendoza: seemingly racing to the bottom. Recent polls, and an essay in the Wall Street Journal (see “Is Climate Change in Your Problem Top...