This is known as the "merde" sandwich approach (if you'll pardon my french). Sandwich the nasty stuff between two slices of nice. It's gentler on...
I wouldn't bother with the last one - it got very weird and I only read it because I hate to leave things unfinished. You managed to instigate a...
Hi Hettyblue Poor grammar, spelling and poor continuity would drive me up the wall, but i think most of the books that people here are labelling...
Don't start at the beginning if it's the beginning that's got you stumped. Is there any part of it that you can write? Write that. Then print it...
It's a term that they started using in UK prisons for sex offenders, so perhaps Merriam Webster didn't spend any time inside lol (btw - neither...
Just so you know, nonce is UK slang for a paedophile - so use it carefully! What does it mean for you?
lol - you did a funny! :D (took me a little while, though, as we don't have states in Sunny England, we have counties) I should probably change...
I use a Thesaurus frequently, but not to increase my vocabulary. I'd never use a word from the Thesaurus or from anywhere that I didn't know...
I waste my time writing because I enjoy it and I'd rather waste my time writing than waste my time doing housework or working harder or anything...
HOw about: he's playing (maybe at a venue, maybe just practising at home), his phone rings, he checks who it is and ignores it, the person who...
What you have to ask yourself is what makes you care about someone? Did they nurse a sick puppy back to health? Help an old lady across the road?...
Yep - changing the font changes the appearance of the quotation from super-curly (Curlz font) to super straight (Courier) Unless that wasn't what...
British? Defective? As if! We get double quotation marks above the 2 and the apostrophe is the same as a single quotation mark. If you want it to...
That's odd - I have an English keyboard, but my quotation mark (") is above the 2. Unless Mammamaia meant an American English keyboard. ;) :p
Separate names with a comma.
