Category — writing

I found a great blog challenge on Gwen Bell’s blog and decided to participate.

I made a Best of 2009 Blog Challenge page, but you can do it anyway you want to.

I’m not tagging anyone to participate but I hope you all will so I can see what your Best of 2009 list is. What can I say, I’m nosy.

Anyone who has chatted with me on MSN very quickly learns to read Renee-ese. I think well enough, my thoughts are generally coherent and phrased well (if a little archaically – I blame Jane Austen). When those thoughts are translated to MSN, they’re a mess. Typos galore, no sense of grammar and I have even spelt my own name wrong on several occasions.

My friend Amanda on the other hand is some sort of genius copywriter or grammar guru – her MSN messages are nearly 100% error free and entirely readable.

So, Amanda and I were chatting online one day when she noticed a typo – I had written “It was very entertainting.”

Her immediate response was that a typo that good needed a definition. I have provided one with an illustration:

Now that’s entertaintment!

(And thanks to Amanda and her eye for amusing, erroneous detail!)

In this scenario my brain is the rock and the paper is the blank WYSIWYG editor in WordPress.

I suppose I could write about the lovely snow outside and the not so lovely way it got into my shoes when I took the compost out. Or I could write about the dish water I spilled all over the kitchen floor this morning. Or how about the telemarketer a few minutes ago who asked me “Don’t you want to save money?” as though I were lighting cigarettes with hundred dollar bills over here.

Blah.