http://www.bloggercises.com/ Bloggercises en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT info@bloggercises.com info@bloggercises.com http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/ Some time ago I developed a theory, which has so far built a dedicated following of one, that blogging will take over the world. Now, it seems, the legal system... http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/ Facebook is the most innovative tech company on Earth, according to an annual review of corporate imagination by Fast Company magazine. The full list of 50 corporate innovators can be... http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:20:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/ Emmet Spain, a 29-year-old Australian who has just successfully negotiated the obstacle course which leads to the publication of a first novel, may have ended, once and for all, the... http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:39:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/ We have in the past advised novice writers against using cliches. There no known excuse to use a cliche, we said. There is no imaginable circumstance in the occupied universe... http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:17:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/power-of-a-writer/ My novel, which is developing at the pace of a geriatric glacier on Jupiter, nevertheless provides moments of great satisfaction. The freedom to create is one of the great attractions... http://www.bloggercises.com/power-of-a-writer/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/power-of-a-writer/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:49:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-stat-spike/ A year ago, I wrote a post over at NewlyOld entitled "Christmas and the finer points of Cockney". It was inspired by my 80-something father in law, to whose generation... http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-stat-spike/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-stat-spike/ Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:02:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/unfriend/ In news which perhaps sums up a year which was unfriendly to the global economy, to the environment, to developing nations and to the remaining optimists who had faith that... http://www.bloggercises.com/unfriend/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/unfriend/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:52:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/definite-article/ English is simple, right? Where French and Italian makes things difficult with two forms of the definite article, masculine and feminine, and German makes things even tougher by throwing in... http://www.bloggercises.com/definite-article/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/definite-article/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:44:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/consumption-makfunction/ The blogosphere has been abuzz for some time now watching the rise and rise of the Consumption Malfunction blog. Ever since it won the illustrious South-Eastern Milky Way Award for... http://www.bloggercises.com/consumption-makfunction/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/consumption-makfunction/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:28:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/thoughts-on-redundancies/ Some follow-up thoughts reinforcing yesterday's post on the issue of overused words, which is a subset of the broader subject of redundancies. The need to explain is human but is... http://www.bloggercises.com/thoughts-on-redundancies/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/thoughts-on-redundancies/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:56:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/writers-tool-kit-the-word-very/ Consider the following two paragraphs: There is a word, a very common word, which, carefully controlled in writing, and very often removed altogether from it, can make a very big... http://www.bloggercises.com/writers-tool-kit-the-word-very/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/writers-tool-kit-the-word-very/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:27:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/chronovore/ Chronovore: something which eats your time. I just saw this word on a Twitter tweet by Tiffany. The main chronovore she wrestles with is Twitter itself. But high-end procrastinators have... http://www.bloggercises.com/chronovore/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/chronovore/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:32:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/write-and-wrong-1/ The aim of the first paragraph of any text, be it a blog post or a doctoral thesis, is to tempt the reader to venture forward to the second paragraph... http://www.bloggercises.com/write-and-wrong-1/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/write-and-wrong-1/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:07:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/simple-blogging-rules/ Here are some simple rules for new bloggers. Don't start unless you mean to go on. Blogging is a brave new publishing world but the internet is littered with abandoned... http://www.bloggercises.com/simple-blogging-rules/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/simple-blogging-rules/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:14:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/spelling-6/ It is not hard to become a good speller. All it takes is a little practice. Look at the words below. They may or may not be spelled correctly. Write... http://www.bloggercises.com/spelling-6/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/spelling-6/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:47:00 GMT