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It was called 10 Words You Literally Didn't Know You Were Getting Wrong. Eight-ish years ago, I wrote an article about words that are commonly confused for each other like assent/consent, disinterested/uninterested, and deserts/deserts/desserts. While I agree that words shift their meanings over time, there are some words that are similar to other words that have distinctly different meanings. Here are a few things I've learned in the last decade. However, anyone who has had to teach a thing usually discovers something they did not know-about the subject and about themselves. I have given up a lot things-my sleep, my lowrise jeans, my favorite radio station, my sanity-but I won’t give up LitReactor or my love of learning and teaching English grammar. The header pic is inspired by CLIFFHANGER, which was filmed in my hometown! It was MEANT TO BE.Ī LOT has changed in the last 10 years-I moved from one city to another, bought a house in that new city/sold it/bought a house in the burbs, gave birth to 3 humans, changed jobs 3 times, attended 3 funerals, and paid off a car. I’ve been writing for LitReactor since it started in 2011. Not expecting much, I sent a few of my class plans from the Fremont Abbey and, well, here I am. Palahniuk, a call went out from his Twitter feed for writers to submit articles for a new site dedicated to the craft of writing. (Ever heard of him?) Not long after I started following Mr. In my new home, I looked online for a local writing community and followed a few Portland area writers. In October of 2010, my husband got a new job in Portland, OR, so I said goodbye to my class (whom I still miss!) and moved south. Jerk.) and popped up a writing class through the Seattle arts organization Fremont Abbey. For a few months, a small group of people showed up regularly and let me lecture them about grammar and craft.
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To that end, I opened a Twitter account ( someone had already taken writerscramp. A decade ago, I decided it was my duty to help people with a less-than-solid understanding of English grammar.