Fridays With Dale: Send Me Flowers
Send Me Flowers By Dale Angel She said, “Son, give me flowers while I’m living, not after I’m dead and can’t see and smell and touch them.” He was helping to build space equipment, an exciting ...
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Developing Military Characters in Realistic Fiction
(~8 Minute Read) Writers, whether for scripts or other fiction, make a lot of mistakes with depicting military members. Sometimes to the point that it gets so obnoxiously cliché or romanticized that it is hard to watch or read. We’ve all...
Fridays With Dale: Pea Patch Peer Pressure
Pea Patch Peer Pressure By Dale Angel I pick up the basket and sit it up on my shoulder and place my hand under the bottom. It topples off. Why am I standing in an auction barn trying to balance a pea hamper? As a child of the Depress...
Allow me to introduce … me
Hello, and thanks to whoever created this site. I am a septuagenarian, semi-retired, widowed architect who has long harbored delusions of being a word smith. I have had a number of technical articles published in building trade publications...
Paragraphs and pacing
Let’s start with a definition: A paragraph begins at a new line. It is a group of related sentences that describe a central idea and a grammatical unit. Is that helpful? No? You’re not alone. Don’t know where to set the br...
Fridays With Dale: It’s My Job
It’s My Job By Dale Angel ‘Grandmother’ is a titled position. Their duties are varied and executive in nature. You can’t run a company without experts, and Grandmothers are…especially at such things as the irrelevancy of...
Question About Getting an Essay Published
As your professor about academic journals on that subject matter. As a lit major, the academic journals were geared toward literary criticism and analysis.When i took psychology and Art Therapy, those academic journals were geared more to t...
Stop the Christmas Movie Marathon: Why You Should Start Hunting for That Summer Job Now
Ah, Christmas Break—time to sit back, relax and…start hunting for a summer job? Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2014. Some of the stats may be a little out of date but the sentiment remains, it’s never to ear...
What to Do if You Really, Really Screw up Your Exams
Don’t panic. Here’s what to do if you screwed up, or worse, failed an exam. We’ve all been there. Strolling into the exam hall, with a smirk on your face, answers right at the top of your brain. Pure confidence in your ability to crus...
Fridays With Dale: Unresolved Issues
Unresolved Issues By Dale Angel It says in my book that for one to be happy, and emotionally and mentally stable, you must tend to your unresolved issues. It advises me to empty out the clutter that is in the far corners of my perso...