Chaotic Empire Writing
Hurro and welcome to Mathew Ferguson's writing website. Here you'll find writing and editing tips, poetry, novels, short stories, art and random bundles of words. Enjoy!
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Rediscovering your writing (and a bit on the creative process)
While looking through short stories to post up here I came across some stories I hadn’t looked at for a loooooong time. In one case it was at least two years.
I found an incomplete story that was clearly under construction. There was even a note in there saying *man I’m …
Is the New
Is it time to retire “X is the new Y” yet? Editor Mattie says: Yes! It has gone past cliche. The only way it can be used is self-referentially (Black is the new Black!) or in comedy ala Josie and the Pussy Cats (OMG Orange is the new Pink!)
Otherwise, cut …
Would have versus Would of
Would of is wrong wrong wrong. But many people use it so it is right right right.
Would have is right and so is would of. Would of is correct by common usage.
So many editors and writers forget that language is a living thing. Whatever way people use language is ultimately …
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I think it crapped in my garden! Love the poems, Sandra... - Cherry P on Hardly at all :
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