分类目录归档：writing
My seven-year-old grandson sleeps just down the hall from me,
and he wakes up a lot of mornings
and he says,
"You know, this could be the best day ever."
And other times, in the middle of the night,
h
A long time ago, there lived a Giant,
a Selfish Giant, whose stunning garden was the most beautiful in all the land.
One evening, this Giant came home
and found all these children playing in his garde
Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez
Have you ever seen something
and you wish you could have said something
but you didn't?
A second question I have is: Has something ever happened to
Translator: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
Dialogue gives a story color,
makes it exciting and moves it forward.
Romeo: O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Juliet: What satisfaction canst thou
Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
I got in my first car accident when I was sixteen.
I had just gotten my license and I was driving home
when a car pulled into the intersection
an
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we always hear that texting is a scourge
the idea is that texting spells the
decline and fall of any kind of serious
literacy or at least writing ability
among young people in the Unit
This just in:
"Thief robs town with world's largest chocolate bunny."
Wait, so are we talking about this,
or this?
That's a classic case of a misplaced modifier,
a common grammatical mistake
that ca
Did you ever notice how many jokes start with, "Did you ever notice?"
And what's the deal with, "What's the deal?"
There's a lot of funny to be found
by simply noticing the ordinary, everyday things
What makes a good horror story?
Sure, you could throw in some hideous monsters,
fountains of blood,
and things jumping out from every corner,
but as classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft wrote,
"The o
wow
that was a tough act to follow i've got
three excellent speakers ahead of me
and i'm the last speaker so i'm going to
do my best
and what i'm going to talk to you today
about is
what i am most pas