Here are a couple more things people do with words that annoy me! Writing voila as wala: Of course one might leave the accent off foreign words when typing them, but this is just too much. Saying you could care less when you mean you couldn't care less: Saying you COULD care less means that …
Waiting
The hardest part of a rejection is waiting for it... I'm at the point where it's been long enough that I'm starting to think they might accept it. Which, if untrue, will make the rejection more sad than it usually is. Also, I have to keep waiting before I can send it somewhere else!
Exploring
Writing a story based in a city I've never been in is interesting, and fun. I wonder how writers did it before the age of the internet. I can drop down into the streets and virtually walk them to get a feel for the city. I can look up bars and restaurants and read reviews …
Great humor
I've started listening to Great Expectations  and am finding it very entertaining. He is quite adept at painting his characters in very memorable and overblown ways, while still keeping them from being caricatures or ridiculous. I've been laughing out loud a lot with this one so far. I wonder why all these classic novels …
The Looking Glass War, by John le Carre
The Looking Glass War , the second le Carre novel I've read, was much different from  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. It was about a completely other department, in fact, called 'the department.' The department doesn't usually send spies out into action, but they think, hey, why shouldn't we do that too? …
Jonas David 