When she makes a dish, she'll turn to me and ask, “How was it?” Even as she's asking the question, she knows that there's something off. If the dish is spectacular, I will go on endlessly about how tasty it is. I'll describe how it tastes, how I feel, and there's no ...
This is currently the most widely-held scientific theory about the origin of birds, and it's helped shape today's view of dinosaurs as swift and agile instead of plodding and clumsy. This theropod is part of the Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Getty ...
Informally, it can be used to describe someone who is lazy, a moron or stupid, but it can also be used jokingly to refer to your buddies. It also has a meaning very close to the English dude or guy. Hola, huevón. ¿Cómo estái? (Hey, buddy. How are you?) 28.Íntimo Where...
Theadjective uncouthcomes from Old English and it meant "unfamiliar or not well known." As the meaning developed, the word came to mean "rude, vulgar, or lacking refinement." Interestingly, the word uncouth came first and its antonym, couth, was developed to describe someone who is cultured,...
we’ll describe multiple ways to do these two things. You can't do much about atmospheric pressure and that pressure contributes very little to the pressure forces on the penis, so the only other way legitimate way to decrease the forces that contract the penis is to decrease the penile tis...
Too many -esque words in the same passage may seem clumsy and repetitive. Don’t pile on redundant suffixes that mean the same thing as -esque (e.g., “picturesque-like”). If someone called you a statue, you might not find it so flattering. However, if someone called you statuesque,...
-Try to avoid character names, unless it’s a famous person. Instead of saying Joe Martin, maybe describe him or tell us his job. (A woodcutter with insomnia…) -Be specific. Unseen forces is not a good word to put into a logline. Tell us what it is. Are these ghosts? Particles?
In reading your blog, I’ve learned that I was guilty of a couple of the “what not to says” (not the most egregious ones, but the attempts to be unrealistically optimistic that you describe) when trying to support a friend who had a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis. Learning ...
This early morning at a service station was not like any other I have experienced, though, (and I have experienced many – 2hrs to the office, remember?) since this time I was joined by what I can only describe as the entire UK Green Beret marine forces. Seriously, there were hundreds...
If you give the characters distinctive enough personalities and speech patterns, and contrive some way for them to describe their environment, and you have them refer to each other by name (which has the side benefit of giving a relaxed, casual air to a conversation), you can totally cut ...