Blogging A2Z Challenge, W is for...

 

Word Meanings:

It is so easy to use the wrong word, thinking that it means something else. Like whether, weather, wither, etc., it can get very confusing. We think that our spell checkers are going to catch these, but they don’t and that’s because those words are actual words, so if you are using a word that might be different to what you think it means, use your trusty heavy dictionary, or the free ones on your computer then look them up. It is the safest, surest way to ensure that you got it right. (I am so guilty of not doing this)

 

Weather:

Writers are advised never to start a novel with the weather…but sometimes ‘it was a dark and stormy night’ can actually be useful, ‘or The twin suns of Zarnac beat down on the heads of Nori and Bos, who were buried up to their necks in sand, watching as in the distance, the darkness of an approaching sand storm came towards them, creeping up, bit by bit…’or ‘The perfect day had started off with blue skies, and the white trail of an airplane across the sky, Emerson Greenwood had woken up happy, then pulling on his dressing gown, and putting his feet in bunny slippers, he’d opened the French doors behind his sheer curtains and walked out onto the patio…’

 

Writers:

Yup, that’s what we are, we write and therefore we’re writers, own that, be proud of that, and know that once we’re done with the editing process, we will level up to Author. Enjoy the process.