Cathy Cade's Blog: Writing Wrinkles, page 15

One I Missed from Stevie Turner

I must have been having a busy month in August because I missed this review from author and blogger, Stevie Turner. All the better to give it another airing now. Many thanks, Stevie. Well done for reaching the finals of the 2023 Page Turner Awards with your forthcoming book Tina’s Diary 1997, due to be … Continue reading One I Missed from Stevie Turner

More Confusing Homonyms

… Compliment or complement Both good to get (usually)… A compliment is something nice said (or written) about someone (or something) as in, “He blushed at her compliment on his new haircut.” A complement is something that completes something, (or someone). There’s a clue there in the spelling. “Those pearl earrings were the perfect complement … Continue reading More Confusing Homonyms

Your Call Is Important To Us.

Insspired by this morning’s call to my bank … Thanks for calling Whim and Witter, ‘with you rain or shine’. Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line. Just to let you know, our staff won’t tolerate abuse. This call may be recorded, in case anybody sues. Our lines are busy right … Continue reading Your Call Is Important To Us.

Online Presence

I must be getting noticed. … If the number of entrepreneurs offering me services to improve my blog are any kind of measure, I must be coming up in more searches. I’m getting more spam among my comments too – not something I remember to check very often. I’ve had no trolls so far though. … Continue reading Online Presence

Feeling at Home

Things that make a difference … It’s a couple of decades now since I moved out of the house where we’d brought up our children. My first husband had left by then and our chicks had flown, apart from one who was still at university. I couldn’t afford to buy out my ex, so the … Continue reading Feeling at Home

Reason to Believe

Sometimes we choose to believe what we want to believe, whatever the evidence. … I’ve not had time to play with any artificial intelligence apps, but I have been interested in the sudden back-pedalling of those who know it best. Enthusiasm is tempered by fears that AI can learn to think for itself more independently … Continue reading Reason to Believe

Don’t give Up the Day Job

A verse of advice for wannabe writers ### My husband says, “The winner of this tournament gets twenty thou.” I tell him, “Don’t give up the day job.” I still say it, even now. These writing contests offer kudos, sometimes cash, and publication, if I could only think up storylines to fire my imagination. We … Continue reading Don’t give Up the Day Job

BOGOF!

… One of the UK’s cut-price supermarket chains has recently opened a store in our nearest town. It doesn’t sell everything I want, but I don’t need those things every week and can save them up for a once-a-month visit to my former supermarket. There is one main reason why I am moving my custom… … Continue reading BOGOF!

More Confusion…

Following earlier posts (tackling affect/effect, farther/further, and fewer/less) readers have raised more confusing combinations. So I looked them up… ”’ flaunt/flout: I initially thought of these words as describing almost opposite actions: ie. to not do something versus to do something in a flamboyant manner. But actually, both actions do share an attitude. Sort of… … Continue reading More Confusion…

Boom Radio

Apologies in advance: this post will only be relevant to readers in the UK. … … I’ve been listening to Boom Radio on my digital assistant. Researching it for this post, I gather it is also available on DAB radio. (Sadly, not on FM,) I have no axe to grind here and have no monetary … Continue reading Boom Radio