It’s All About Readability
Words can be exciting, colourful, obscure, and fascinating in many respects. But are the words that you use in your writing an aid to readability or do they act as a definite hindrance?
I love scouring through old dictionaries for unfamiliar words. The more unusual, unused and unnoticed, the better…
The anniversary has passed, but the vision of the two towers crumbling to concrete dust and twisted steel on 9/11 remains forever. The silent bodies of the innocent temporarily entombed, and the chaos, is still a stab in the heart of freedom and justice. We all recognise that truth.
And…
The U.S.A
“Have a nice day.”
I say it because I have to.
My boss is watching,
Waiting for me to slip up.
Then he can dismiss me, smiling.
“Have a nice day.”
The U.S.A.
Has an American dream
That’s all about greed
And power over your neighbour.
Take the little that they have
…
Don’t — It Could Send Your Readers To Sleep
I hold my hands up and freely admit to writing in the passive voice. I often do it without noticing and it’s only when I’ve finished an article and polish it into a final draft that I realise my error.
But…
Human kindness to the rescue
When I hit the van, a dirty white object that flashed before me, I let out a cry of utter surprise. I knew I was going to hit it. I didn’t have time to touch my brakes.
Bang — and then I hit the road, my left hip taking the…
Use the positive self-talk trick to find out
I was introduced to the ‘Positive Attitude’ mantra when I was in my first direct sales job in the 1970s. I must admit that it seemed like a lot of Americanised psycho-hype created by those smooth talking salespeople on the other side of the pond.
Surely, I thought, in the…
That’s how you will survive.
Many writers have a poor opinion of their abilities. Even though they might write some excellent prose, they don’t see its value. I have torn up many of my past attempts at writing because I thought they were below standard.
That, I now realise, was a big error on my…
But it doesn’t have to be your next marketing ploy.
There are some excellent writers on Medium, and then there are the others. But we all have to start somewhere. And the one common desire for all writers is that they want to be heard, they want to be read and hopefully appreciated.
But many, I fear, are becoming dispirited…
Death of the innocents in Israel
Cries at man’s stupidity
When I arrived home from a boring, pointless day at the office, the sound of the television hit me with a resounding smack on both ears.
“You need to turn it down,” I shouted. “The neighbours will complain again.”
The sound diminished gradually, and then there was complete silence.
I…
And the first black officer to die in WW1.
All reasonable and intelligent people realise that the black man, and woman, has made a vital contribution to the creation and development of human society. And many have given their lives in the defence of civilisation and human rights.
We must all remember and commend their sacrifice, particularly at this…
