Writing Online: Hubpages vs. Helium
From HubPages
If youâre a writer, perhaps youâd like writing online. Youâd probably also like to make money online with your skill. This is entirely possible because of several reputable writing online sites. Iâve...
Tagged as: | Hubpages | general
How Blogging is Like Fishing
You might be wondering, how in the world can blogging possibly have anything to do with fishing? Well I have done both, and here I describe my view of each of these things, and perhaps even a basic philosophy of life and patience.
I love fishing and many of my best memories of fishing are with my father in the highlands of Cape Breton
Tagged as: | fishing | computers | blogging | authors | writing | patience
From the page:
Wait! Before the religious jelots come attacking me with torches please allow me a moment to explain.
I'm not saying that the bible is wrong, or that it isn't good, or even that God did not have a hand in it.
I'm saying it was written by human beings, beings which are imperfect, make mistakes and have a free will. Beings who form committees to decide which of the words sound best and which need to be thrown out.
Tagged as: | stumbleme | religion | god | thoughts | writing | philosophy | stumbleupon | stumbleupon.com | stumble
Learn to Write Correct English 3: The Colon, Semi-colon, and the Hyphen
A nice tutorial on when to use colon, semi-colins and hypens. My writing habits stink, so this would make a good reference
Tagged as: | stumbleme | writing | english | grammar | writing | writinghood | style | grammar
Funny metaphors used in high school essays
I've read this one before, a long time ago, so I had to add it to my collection. Good for a laugh to turn your frown upside down.
Metaphors used by high school students
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine
Tagged as: | stumbleme | writing | humor | relationships | writing | help | post | 124066
