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Monday Morning Motivation 5/10/21
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Monday Morning Motivation 5/10/21

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

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Stop doubting yourself. Work hard and make it happen.

Make Your Editor Cry:  Bight vs. Bite vs. Byte
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bight vs. Bite vs. Byte

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A bite is a portion that is taken away by the rasping of teeth or the wound left from the rasping of teeth. A bite ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Biennial vs. Biannual (& Biweekly, Bimonthly)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Biennial vs. Biannual (& Biweekly, Bimonthly)

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

This can be ambiguous because these words are each formed from two different senses of the prefix “bi” meaning either “occurring every two” or “occurring ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Beyond the Pail vs. Beyond the Pale
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Make Your Editor Cry: Beyond the Pail vs. Beyond the Pale

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

It’s “beyond the pale” and not “beyond the pail.” The phrase has nothing to do with buckets. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pale https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pail To go “beyond the pale” is ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  [I, He, She, They] Better
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Make Your Editor Cry: [I, He, She, They] Better

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

When I say “I better run to the grocery and get some eggs,” I mean “I had better,” abbreviated to “I’d better” and further abbreviated ….

Characters First
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Characters First

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

If the question had been, “Why do you tend to write characters in desperate circumstances?” I could have answered that question without the soul-searching. But this question was, “Why is it important to you to write characters in desperate circumstances.

Make Your Editor Cry:  Best and Worst vs. Good and Bad
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Make Your Editor Cry: Best and Worst vs. Good and Bad

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

So, here’s the thing. You can try to be “as good as” you can be or do something “as well as” you can do it. ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Belief (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Belief (Awkward Plural)

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of belief is beliefs. belief: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Being That or Being As How vs. Because
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Make Your Editor Cry: Being That or Being As How vs. Because

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Using “being that” or “being as how” to mean “because” or “since” is, well let’s just say, nonstandard. Using “being that” as a subordinating conjunction ….

Monday Morning Motivation 5/3/21
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Monday Morning Motivation 5/3/21

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

#mondaymotivation
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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