EXERCISE: A Title Challenge! Tooloo, toolay!

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Original Posting: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:35:17 -0500

All right, let's get those fingers limber, brain cells percolating, and whatever other parts of your physical/social/mental/emotional/mystical magical self it may take to do some writing ready...

The title is "The Edifice of Dreams."

[Yes, you may use it as the first phrase in a poem, a revealing refrain, an underlying theme, or even as the spark plug that gets you started and you never -- well hardly ever -- think about it again.  The point is to write, and write again, and in that writing, to touch a star to life.]

So, let's see.

The phrase is "The Edifice of Dreams."

And the story is...

Yours!

EXERCISE: Compare, Contrast, and Improve!

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Original posting: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:42:06 -0500

Hi...

Here's a thought.  Take one of those wonderful confusions of the grammatically oriented, and write a bon mot, a poem, perhaps a tale focusing on the differentia?  In other words, provide a memorable little way of both recognizing the possible confusion, understanding the difference, and remembering the recommended way out!

For example, one might choose to venture into the difference between and betwixt "they're" and "their".  Perhaps a slight of dialog (careful, it may not be possible to write the sentence you're thinking of!) and a bit of a humorous chuckle at your cleverness in using that slip of the thought between what you are thinking and what your mind is doing?

Anyway, I'm certain you have your favorite grammatical point to grind, and perhaps you're already writing?

Go ahead, raise a point of grammar, and grind it fine!