Next month is NaNoWriMo. (That’s National Novel Writing Month for those of you who aren’t novelists.)
The purpose of NaNoWriMo is to provide a forum for accountability and encouragement for would-be novelists to actually crank out their brain child.
The goal of NaNoWriMo is for each registered writer to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s 1,667 [...]
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On Tuesday, I talked about stops. Today we’ll focus on the promised nasals, sibilants, and liquids. (And you thought you left all this behind after English 101!)
Nasals—n, m, ng—are sounded in the nose. Say inning, and you’ll see what I mean. You can feel the n and ng sounds at the top of the back [...]
Phonics 101: Consonants (Part 1)
Posted in Writing on Sep 15th, 2009
Oh goody! Another word-geek fest today. In my last post, I talked about vowel sounds. Today, we’ll focus on consonants.
Most consonants cannot actually be said without an accompanying vowel sound. (Try saying the sound for “d” and see what I mean: you can’t really say it unless you add a schwa or some other vowel [...]