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Monday Muddle: essential, quintessential

LC January 10, 2022 Monday Muddle

Monday Muddle: essential: (adjective) absolutely necessary; vital; imperative; extremely important; (noun) something that is absolutely necessary, vital, imperative, or extremely important quintessential: (adjective) definitive; exemplary; representing a typical, or the best, example of something

Tuesday Two

LC January 4, 2022 Tuesday Two

Write a story with only two sentences. Use the photo for inspiration if you wish.

Photo by Tim Muangkeo on Unsplash.

A person with winter clothing and climbing gear who is climbing a frozen waterfall.

Monday Muddle: two, too, to

LC January 3, 2022 Monday Muddle2 Comments

Happy New Year! I wish you clear writing and all good things in 2022! Please, if over the course of the year you have occasion to write out twenty twenty-two in words, make sure that you spell “two” correctly. Nobody wants twenty twenty too!

Monday Muddle: two: (noun)(adjective) one more than one; the second in a series too: (adverb) also; very, excessively to: (preposition) indicates direction, position, or purpose

Wednesday Writing

LC December 29, 2021 Wednesday Writing

Do you take time off from writing for holidays? If not, do you change your schedule at all?

Tuesday Two

LC December 28, 2021 Tuesday Two

Write a story with only two sentences. Use the photo for inspiration if you wish.

Photo by Tom Podmore on Unsplash.

A narrow canal, known as a backstreet, in Venice, with tall, brightly painted buildings on either side.

Monday Muddle: plumb, plum

LC December 27, 2021 Monday Muddle

How many of you had plum pudding for Christmas? Was it plum plum pudding? It probably wasn’t plumb plum pudding.

Monday Muddle: plum: (noun) a fruit; the tree that grows the fruit; (adjective) ideal; highly desirable; a reddish-purple colour plumb: (adjective) to be perfectly vertical; to be perpendicular to the base; (noun) commonly referred to as a plumb bob; a weight (traditionally lead) on a piece of string; (verb) to measure the depth of a body of water; to test or adjust the verticality of a structure The verb to plumb can also mean to connect to a plumbing system, or to work as a plumber.

Wednesday Writing

LC December 22, 2021 Wednesday Writing

Do you hire a professional editor? Do you think you should?

Tuesday Two

LC December 21, 2021 Tuesday Two

Write a story with only two sentences. Use the photo for inspiration if you wish.

Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash.

A white reindeer with antlers appears to be talking to a white reindeer with a grey face and no antlers. The second reindeer appears to be paint rapt attention.

Monday Muddle: merrily, merely

LC December 20, 2021 Monday Muddle

Monday Muddle: merrily: (adverb) happily; cheerfully; with good feelings; in a joyous manner Part of the song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat. merely: (adverb) only; just; simply; nothing more than; nothing better than NOT part of the song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".

To row merely down the stream does not mean the same as to row merrily down the stream. You can do both, even at the same time. But if you are trying to quote the nursery rhyme, you actually want to row gently down the stream.

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream