Writing by Lois

Beep beep boop update…

Is this a temporary thing… or is this the new way of posting on WordPress? Last night I wanted to submit a little something and gone was the normal new post page. I thought maybe there was a temporary issue happening and this morning all would be well… No. I click for ‘new post’ and […]

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Writing by Lois

Not that ending!

All through my teaching career, when I had to set imaginative writing tasks for my students I absolutely forbade them to end their stories “… and I woke up and it was all a dream…” I thought that was the most feeble and pathetic ending… and if when I was doing exam marking I had an essay which […]

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Books by Lois

More misread titles

The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas which continues the adventures of the musketeers he had previously written about in his romantic and exciting novels. However there really was a man who was imprisoned for thirty-four years whose identity was concealed… not by an iron mask but by a black velvet one. There […]

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