Welcome to my new author blog! I am in the process of officially splitting my two personalities: Jodie Toohey the Wordsy Woman and Jodie Toohey the author. While I'm working on the split and getting this new blog up and running, I will share some of the posts I initially posted on my Wordsy Woman blog that I feel may be more pertinent to those who may read this blog as a reader or as someone in any way interested in my author persona. As time passes, I will be transitioning the Wordsy Woman blog to focus strictly on words and writing related to business and marketing. This author blog will focus on my poetry and novel writing endeavors as well as living the "writer's life." I hope you'll grant me your patience as I make this transition. In the end, I hope it will work to serve my audiences better.
From July 7, 2012:
At least a year or a couple of years ago now, I don't remember where we were, what we are doing, or what show it was on, but my kids and I saw one of those funny-picture or funny-ad segments about this furniture company called "Sofa King." It showed an ad that said something like "Shop Sofa King where the prices are Sofa King low." (A Google search shows a lot of people have jumped onto the "Sofa King" bandwagon.)
Of course, my kids (and I'll admit it, me) thought this was hilarious. And, of course, they tried to use it as a way to say the f-word without actually saying the f-word. After our initial giggles wore off, my husband and I banned the "Sofa King" proclamations. But, even so long after the initial appearance of this phrase, it comes up every now and then. And it is still as funny as it ever was.
For the past week or so, our temperatures here have been hovering around the 100 degree mark with heat indexes well above that. I cannot even count the number of times I've thought, "It is Sofa King hot!" And then I had a little chuckle and it made me feel a bit better. Go ahead, give it a try!
The moral of the story: read your writing out loud to make sure your words sound like you want them to sound.
