Gary Alexander's other items

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  • Column: USE THE RIGHT WORD! THE EXACT TERM! at storywrite
    DID YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF USING THE INCORRECT TERM...THE WRONG WORD? EVER CONVEY THE IMPROPER MEANING? INADVERTENTLY? READ ON!
  • Column: MORE MUNDANE MONSTERS AND OFFENDERS at storywrite
    Here are some of our NEWER more obnoxious cliches. The people who use them seem to think they are being fresh and original. In fact, the truth is quite to the contrary!
  • Column: CLEVER? OR CLICHE? at storywrite
    Do you know what constitutes a cliche? Are you guilty of hackneyed, banal, stereotypical, overused expressions?
  • Column: CLEVER? OR CLICHE? at storywrite
    Are you guilty of using cliche after cliche? Do you know WHAT a cliche is? Read this...find out!
    Clever...or CLICHE
    Ok, gang! A few of you have evinced and conveyed sufficient interest in the Woids or WORDS column to move me in the direction of y
  • Column: Clever or Cliche at storywrite
    Are you guilty of using cliche after cliche? Do you know WHAT a cliche is? Read this...find out!
  • Column: COMMANDMENTS OF WRITING at storywrite

    THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF WRITING1

    1) Thou shalt not employ cliches, hackneyed, trite, banal words and phrases.2

    2) Thou shalt avoid excess, and extraneous, superfluous redundancies.3

    3) Thou shalt employ one point of view p
  • Column: MORE MONSTERS & OFFENSIVE OGRES at storywrite
  • Column: CLEVER?.............or CLICHE? at storywrite
    Clever...or CLICHE
    Ok, gang! A few of you have evinced and conveyed sufficient interest in the Woids or WORDS column to move me in the direction of yet another thought provoker. So here goes:1

    In my perusing (and that actually means going ove
  • Column: WRITE THIS? (WHEN YOU MEAN...THAT?) at storywrite
    Do You Write This...When You Mean That?
    Hi boys and girls. I see some of you have gone...for good! Others tell me the dog ate their homework! But some of you...have shown up! YOU are the ones who will succeed. Persistence is the KEY!1

    Now...d
  • Column: WORDS?.............or WOIDS? DON'T WRITE LIKE A DOPE! at storywrite