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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
