STILL, IN LOVE WITH YOU

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April 5 Question: Have you taken advantage of the annual A to Z Challenge in terms of marketing, networking, publicity for your book? What were the results?

First up…

Yup!

I’ve taken advantage of the A to Z Challenge…

Two times, actually in the last five years.

It’s grueling ! It’s fun! And it’s a great marketing tool

But not this year…

I’ve got a project on the front burner…

And it’s overheating as I write.

Next year, though, I will…

Second up,

Did some nit-picky editing the other day…

So there I am breezing along when…

Holy guacamole!

When did my grammar go rogue?

What’s with using “till” instead of until or ‘til?

So I went to the “find” feature in Word and…

Holy frijoles!

Surprisingly, not so many “tills”…

But dozens and dozens of “still’s”…

I had no idea I used that word so often…

Usually my overused word is  “so”...

So I got curious…

I began stalking my conversations for "still".

And what do you know? 

It turns out I don’t say “still”…

I only write “still”.

Hmm?

What’s up with that?

So?

Not including using different speech for characters…

Do you use words or phrases when you write...

That you don't use when you speak?

And what are they?

Always,

Em-Musing