“If you want a simple rule guaranteed to improve your writing, try this: Avoid the words very, really, truly, quite and thing. Rarely do these words contribute to a sentence.”
-Diane Sandford
Have a great Monday folks . . .
~m
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Smoke & Mirrors 
Another fact of great writing is making sure we have our facts straight As in September 4, 2007 is a Tuesday.
Happy Tuesday to you too! 😉
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what spas said 😉
and as for the rest of it, well, i’m pretty much screwed i guess…..i use them a lot…oops!
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TMHBL….touche’, spaz! i very really truly find this blog thing quite amusing….
love calvin & hobbes.
have a great day, whatever calendar you may be lookin’ at!
love & peace,
yvonne {still chuckling}
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What a fantastic comic, and reminds me of every single bit of literary criticism I’ve ever read.
(Note: I didn’t say it was a “really” fantastic comic.)
Thanks for sharing!
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Hm. I thought it was Monday too.
Have a good one, either way, Michael!
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I was all, like, really and totally bummed by this. I mean, who truly writes well without quite using those exact specific phrasings.
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thanks for the tip!
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I hate it when comics use words I can’t understand!
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It sure feels like a Monday. Ugh! I’m with Lolly on the big words. So pompous and unnecessary. 😉
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Oh that pretentious child! He make me feel like stoopid grown-up person who too lazy to use big book called dictionary.
No, seriously, I thought it was Monday too. Stupid Labor Day holiday… I’ve got to try the writing tip. Those are absolutely overused adverbs in my own writing (see, better already! Now if I can only banish the exclamation point!)
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TMHBL=Throwing My Head Back Laughing
my own mnemonic
write on!
-yvonne
~m
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Oh well I guess I will just have to suck.
I really truly believe very much that I do quite that very thing. 🙂
Hey thanks for coming by lately and for all your encouragement. Sorry I’ve been a bit absent. But it’s been a rough month…..
You understand.
Kim
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I think I’ll comment again (since you don’t have a new post for me to read this morning.)
I did laugh when I read this comic yesterday. But now that I’ve looked up a couple of those big words, I’m laughing some more.
So that’s Calvin and Hobbes, eh? Again. You like them. Are they history? In syndication?
You’ll have to show some more. Pick out the best ones. The ones with fewest words.
🙂
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Always knew I was doing something wrong, oh wait, I’m not a writer, I can use whatever words I want…yay for me!
Cheers, Kelly
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Really and truly that is quite the very thing I have been trying to say.
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M: Calvin and Hobbes? My 2nd favorite after “Far Side”
Why do all the good ones disappear?
~m
Isn’t that the truth?
Always a pleasure to come across your gems 🙂
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