According to recent reports, the English language contains over 470,000 words. Compared to other languages, that’s a whole lot of words (many of which we borrowed from other languages, that’s true). According to my limited research, the average 10-year-old has a vocabulary of about 10,000 words. And as reported by The Economist magazine, their online…
Author: Ann Gordon
My Grievance with GOT
“The word “got” is simply abysmal…”
Trying NaNoWriMo, Again
I would very much like to finish, edit, and publish a novel in the coming year. In between writing and publishing flash stories, short stories, creative nonfiction, and teaching modules, I’ve been working on two novel-length stories. Truth be told, ‘working on them’ is a misnomer as I have continued to edit or expound upon…
Book Spine Adventures
A while back I helped a colleague self-publish his books so he could proudly place all six of them on the bookshelves of friends and family. We had already self-published these historical books for the digital market, but – like most authors – he wanted to own and distribute a number of physical copies. He…
Third Person Omniscient vs Head Hopping
Recently I’ve found myself in a quandary about critiquing another writer for the ‘head hopping’ error. I mean, what actually constitutes head hopping?