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The Great Mr Roget and His Amazing Thesaurus

When a member of our writer’s group recently confessed that she was not familiar with Roget’s Thesaurus, shock reigned. A writer without Roget? Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Unimaginable. Incredible. Inconceivable.

At succeeding meetings, though, I began to wonder if perhaps some of us, in our eagerness to show our bosom acquaintance with the man, weren’t prone to overdo it just a bit.

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See the Trees in the Forest – Where to Start Writing Your Book

When you want to write a book, figuring out where to start is one of the most problematic obstacles. When I talk to aspiring authors, this is one of the most common challenges that comes up. And it can hold back even the most motivated people.

You know writing your book will be good for you–it will attract more ideal clients to you, it will make your business more visible, it will allow you to make more money, and it will get your message out to much bigger audiences. You want to write the book and you have lots of ideas, but when you sit down to do it, you just can’t seem to get anything done.

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Good English Grammar – The Expression “Between You and I”

The Problem

Many speakers and writers of English use the expression “between you and I.” People use this expression because it makes them sound more educated — or so they think. In their effort to appear sophisticated, people blithely say, “Just between you and I, company xyz will go public next week.” As difficult as it may be to believe, this expression is wrong.

We have had it pounded into us over and over that we say and write “you and I” that we use “you and I” for everything. We have to think about what we say and write or we will appear illiterate and uneducated.

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