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Thumbing through the dictionary

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:58:08 GMT

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Thumbing through the dictionary

I recently noticed how many body parts have made the leap from noun to verb. Here are a few things you can do with your body parts as verbs:

Shoulder the burden.
Face the music.
Arm yourselves!
Foot the bill.
Stomach an awful movie.
Finger the suspect.
Elbow a pushy jerk on the subway.
Neck with your girlfriend.
Tongue her if she’ll let you.
Bone her once your parents go to sleep.
Mouth along with the music.
Head out of here.
Skin a cat.
Scalp the cat’s owner.
Back out on your commitment.
Eyeball the hot girl at the club.
Hand over your cash.
Knee a mugger in the nuts.
Thumb your nose at the President.
Heart New York.
Butt out.

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Writing Tips

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:57:06 GMT

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Read as much and as often as you can. Remember, every writer is a reader first.

Invest in a few valuable resources starting with The Chicago Manual of Style, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, and The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition.

Grammar: learn the rules and then break them.

Join a writers’ group so you can enjoy support and comradery in your craft.

Create a space in your home especially for writing.

Write every single day.

Let go of your inner editor. When you sit down to write a draft, refrain from proofreading until that draft is complete.

Allow yourself to write poorly, to write a weak, uninteresting story or a boring, grammatically criminal poem. You’ll never succeed if you don’t allow yourself a few failures along the way.

You are a writer so own up and say it out loud, “I am a writer.” Whether it’s a hobby or your profession, you have the right to this title.

Write, write, write, and then write some more. Forget everything else and just write.