Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03

Time to put my evil Ice Queen hat on. Winter & Depression: http://blog.deannaknippling.com/?p=1950 # Dipsomania: An insatiable, periodic craving for alcohol. http://wordsmith.org/awad. # Yes! One of the Picnic Basket cooking classes will have knife sharpening! http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2004 # @Three_Star_Dave I, for one, don't love you any less for not getting a Christmas card. in reply to […]

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Chocolate Story: First Draft is Done!

Here’s the length/naming convention guide from the SFWA: Novel — 40,000 words or more Novella — 17,500–39,999 words Novelette — 7,500–17,499 words Short Story — 7,499 words or fewer I have finished the first draft of my Chocolate Story novella, which is just over 20K. The end bugs me, because it’s cheesy, and cheesiness becomes

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Word of the Day: Meticulous

A big thank you to Anu Garg, the only vocabulary website with insight into the human condition. A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg A Happy New Year to all the readers from all of us at Wordsmith.org meticulous PRONUNCIATION: (muh-TIK-yuh-luhs) MEANING: adjective: Extremely careful, precise, or thorough. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin meticulosus (fearful), from metus (fear). Originally the

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