This is now a creative writing blog...

...apparently.

Somewhat to my surprise, The Engine Room has been included in BestCollegesOnline.com's list of the Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs.

The list actually features a dozen 'grammar and editing' blogs, and it's good to see a creative writing resource that pays attention to the nuts and bolts of language use (as Apus might say).

And while I can't vouch for all the other blogs in the list, a few of my favourites do make an appearance – notably GrammarBlog and Headsup. I shall have to check out the others (those in the 'grammar and editing' section, anyway) in due course.

Friday roundup: cow poison and The Proclaimers

My adventures with photo-sharing website Flickr are continuing – I've now joined GrammarBlog's Grammar Bloopers group and even added a couple of my pictures to it. If you like "photos of spelling errors, apostrophe abuse, dangling modifiers and malapropisms", I recommend you check out the group.

To be honest, signs with misplaced or missing apostrophes are 10 a penny where I live in south London, so photos of these don't float my boat, but I do like snaps like this:


A bottle of cleaning liquid that's "useful for" poisoning cows and pigs. Brilliant.

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I'm also really enjoying the GraphJam website, "song chart memes and pop culture explained in graph form". It must appeal to my stat-crazy brain. Here, for any Proclaimers fans, is the sort of thing it offers:

More graph humour and song chart memes