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Are you a member of the grammar police? (Five examples that will make you mad!)
I think I’m asking for it with this post so hopefully I don’t make any mistakes haha!
But I’m not really talking about accidental mis-spellings (everyone makes mistakes!) but what really grinds my gears is the wrong use of….
There, Their and They’re, it’s, its, and its’ …and don’t get me started on the wrong use of apostrophes…
So here are my top five examples of bad grammar that will get right under your skin:
5)
They got the last one right! *bangs head against wall* They got…the last one…right…
4)
If that’s what she finds inspiration in I think we’d better avoid this woman…
3)
If there’s one certain way to undermine an insult…
2)
That is literally tattooed on your skin for life.
And for my handpicked number one…it had to be this…
1)
Correcting bad grammar with bad grammar. Need I say any more?
If you laugh…you have to subscribe! Mahahaha
Okay so i have very few subscribers and though I deeply love you both (haha) I would like to have a few more!
BUT I’m not asking you to subscribe willy nilly. Why would you? When you could be out subscribing to J.K.Rowling, or Cassandra Clare or George R.R Martin. Why don’t you go subscribe to those people right? Afterall, they’re offering you something already!
So I present to you a challenge! If you laugh at the following meme you must honour your vow to subscribe but if not I’ll let you go on your way – and I don’t want any pity subscribers either!
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Here we are then….remember if you laugh you have to subscribe! If you can’t face the pressure then maybe you should turn back before it’s too late!
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Oh and, just for your information, this one seriously had me laughing
300 Followers!! This is SPARTA!
Okay so that was the only 300 reference I could think of haha 🙂
I wanna say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who has followed me and I (of course!) always endeavour to follow back as you lot are such a bunch of interesting people and I’ve met (cyber-met?) so many amazing people that way and found some brilliant blogs!
And in honour of this I’ve created my own award! That’s right! It might not catch on but so what!? It’ll be fun while it lasts haha!
So you might not be suprised to hear what I’ve called this award…..drumroll….
The Sparkling Unicorn Award!
This award is designed to celebrate your individuality as a person and fellow blogger. If you think about it a unicorn is just a horse with a horn and YOU are just a person with a blog and yet both equate to something special and unique!
So as part of this award I challenge you to write a four hundred word maximum blurb about your life as if it were a novel on the shelf in a bookstore!
As example…
Here’s mine:
After a stint at university, aspiring author Caroline Peckham discovers her passion as a writer and longs to fulfill her dreams. But, when summer hits, her fulltime job begins to consume her time and she struggles to juggle her passions with everyday life. And things are about to get a lot more crazy when a trip to the other side of the planet literally turns her world upside down…
And finally! Nominate five bloggers for the award. So to get started here’s mine! Go for it blogging friends! Share this award far and wide!
1) Hope to Read
5) KasimsKorner
I highly recommend you check out these blogs they are fantastico!
Maybe one day farrrrr in the future someone will nominate me for The Sparkling Unicorn Award and I’ll be sitting in my rocking chair puffing on a pipe and I’ll say “Hm! Well, well…how the tables have turned….”(I’ll be super senile by the way but it’ll be totally worth it!)
Conveying your Characters – Third Person Tips
So you have a fantastic character with all the flaws, traits and layers of an actual human being BUT (particularly when you’re writing third person) how do you get across who they really are?
When I started writing I knew I had a tendancy to write third person but, in comparison to first person, it isn’t so easy to convey their inner emotions and who they are as a person. Some people choose to add the thoughts and feelings of their characters in italics which is one way of approaching this but this isn’t a technique I personally use.
If, like me, you’re a bit of a googler then you may have tried searching this problem to get advice but what you get is a whole long list of ways to develop your character like character profiling etc. but this isn’t what I’m talking about (so if this is your problem – read no more!)
So what did I do?
I read a whole lot of third person books and noted the techniques they used in terms of sentence structure to convey who the characters are.
And here’s my list for your persual. I hope you find it helpful!
(I use ‘he’ in my examples but this is obviously interchangeable with she/I/they etc. etc. Also all actions, thoughts and feelings distinguished by ‘/’ can be interchanged with whatever takes your fancy!)
- He usually / His usual / He was used to being…
- He supposed/wondered…
- He hadn’t felt/behaved/acted that way for a while…not since (insert past event)
- He felt embarressed/distressed/upset/hurt but wouldn’t let (so and so) know that
- He had once been (insert description) but now he was (insert opposing description)
- It was nice/unusual to meet someone like himself in that (describe how they are similar/disimilar)
- It wasn’t how he personally would have acted but…
- He wouldn’t be embarrassed/hurt/goaded so easily not since (insert past event that changed him)
- He frowned at himself/ his sister / friend / his clothes (shows how proud he is or isn’t)
- He ignored the surge of emotions that arose because of…
- Had he been able to/ willing to/ had the guts to/ bold enough to/ not under the watchful gaze of/ quicker off the mark/ he would have (insert action)
- He (insert action) for effect
- He tried to look/ tried not to look…
- He was always/often/never/occasionally the one to (insert behaviour)
- He generally avoided (insert situation/behaviour)
You get the idea!
Thanks for reading 🙂
I’ve been Nominated for the 777 Challenge (Yay!)
Thank you to Marjma for nominating me!
Her blog is fantastic you should check it out. Click here to visit her page.
The idea of the 777 challenge is to share a snippet from a WIP (Work in progress) then nominate others to do the same!
Here are the rules:
– Go to page 7 of your WIP (Or an older work that you have done and just love.)
– Scroll down to line 7
– Share the next 7 sentences in a blog post.
– After the excerpt tag 7 other writers to continue the challenge.
BUT I’ve recently shared the seventh page within the prologue to my fantasy YA novel Creeping Shadow so I’ve decided to share line 7 of the seventh page counting from chapter one (I hope that’s not breaking the rules too much! – try calling 777 if you’d like to complain hehe)
So here’s my excerpt:
“Should we go in?” May asked, peeking under his arm.
Oliver nodded and crept into the room. He brushed his fingers across a box on the bed and found a layer of dust deposited on it. A tingle ran up his spine as he got the distinct feeling that the room was somehow sacred, left untouched for years. He pushed his fingers under the lip of the closed box and lifted it slowly. The cardboard resisted, unmoving. He frowned and tugged at it harder but the box wouldn’t open.
And here’s my nominations:
1) Phantomwriter143 http://phantomwriter143.wordpress.com/
2) Isabellesudron http://sudrobelle.wordpress.com/
3) Rachelloon http://racheliliffe.wordpress.com/
4) C.S Wilde http://www.cswilde.wordpress.com/
5) Jacobemet http://jacobemet.wordpress.com/
6) Rlsharp http://rlsharpe.wordpress.com/
7) Dileepsankhla https://dileepsankhla.wordpress.com
Cover Reveal for Creeping Shadow
The moment has arrived!
I’m extremely excited and proud to present to you the cover for Creeping Shadow (Book One in The Rise of Isaac Series)
For those of you who don’t know…
The Rise of Isaac is a five part series following the story of Oliver Knight on his quest through the seven worlds to save his sister from a lethal curse.
Book One, Creeping Shadow Synopsis:
Sixteen year old Oliver Knight discovers the existence of six other worlds after his adopted sister, May, falls ill to a lethal curse. The curse links her to the famous an
ti-Gateway terrorist, Isaac Rimori, who murdered Oliver’s father in cold blood to gain access to the seventh world.
The only way to save May is by travelling to the next world, but entering each one requires the completion of a challenge and time is running out…
Coming to Amazon Kindle in December 2015
© Caroline Peckham and http://www.carolinepeckham.com, 2015. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Caroline Peckham and http://www.carolinepeckham.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Cover Reveal Countdown!
You may have noticed the fancy countdown timer on my home page and (if you’re that observant!) you may also have noticed that it is set to just ONE HOUR
That’s right people! It’s now less than one hour to go before I share the cover of Creeping Shadow with you…hold onto your socks…because they’re about to get knocked off…
Coming soon (as in the next 24 hours soon!)…Creeping Shadow Prologue!
Was that chills running down your spine or are you reading this in a cold shower? Either way! I’m super super SUPER excited to be publishing the prologue of Creeping Shadow (Book One of The Rise of Isaac series)
AND THAT’S NOT EVEN THE BEST PART!
The best bit of all is that YOU guys are getting it first! (I promise!)
In the next TWENTY FOUR HOURS I will be publishing the prologue of Creeping Shadow here at wordpress before anywhere else! Because I love you all and you’ve stuck there right with me from the beginning of my blogging life (#blife) and hopefully along my journey to becoming a published author (eek!)
I’m literally about to pee my pants with excitement right now – I’m sorry for the mental image but I just can’t help it!
So for those of you who are interested….
Creeping Shadow is the first book in my upcoming five part fantasy YA series The Rise of Isaac.
SYNOPSIS:
After sixteen year old Oliver Knight discovers the existence of six other worlds, his adopted sister is struck ill by a lethal curse. The curse links her to the fanatical terrorist, Isaac Rimori, who murdered Oliver’s father in cold blood ten years ago. Now, Rimori is plotting to wage a war that will change the face of the seven worlds using the monstrous creatures that live in Vale to aid him.
On his quest to save his sister, Oliver and his friends must compete in near-impossible challenges to gain access to the Gateways that are the portals to the other worlds. But with time running out, devastating secrets unfolding, and Rimori thwarting them at every turn does Oliver Knight have what it takes to save his sister?
Links to My Other Social Media Sites!
Hi all!
I am now on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn!
I’d love for you to follow me as I currently don’t have many friends there haha – help a girl out? (puppy dog eyes)
I promise to follow you back!
Here are the links if you’re interested:
Thank you!!!
Caroline Peckham 