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 …
The grind
I logged into my Submissions Grinder account for the first time since 2014, and boy did I used to submit a lot of stories everywhere... I miss that. Writing novels has kind of taken a lot of the excitement and feeling of making progress out of writing for me, since they take so damn long. …
Very short story
I accepted a random challenge to write a 75 word story about a duel at high noon... this is what I came up with: No shadows. Sun sizzles on my scalp. Lips crack, skin flakes red. Eyes blink sticky. My tongue is a paper reproduction. Resist. Cool crystalline water, ice snap popping, condensation beading …
Words
Are like puzzle pieces with many sides. Cube or dodecahedron even, and can lock together in many ways to reveal many pictures. Sometimes you just have to make them line up in any way that makes sense, and sometimes you spend hours sliding them around, moving them here and there, until you get exactly the …
Word Peevs: we all have them!
Often times:  Why don't you just say 'often'? Begs the question: 95% of the time you mean 'raises the question.' Familiar pronounced as Fur-miliar: Unless you are talking about your cat... The problem is, is...: The thing is, is this is really annoying for me. The question is, is this annoying to anyone else? Don't get …
Jonas David 