Sharp Words

Sharp Words is my place for rambling about all things word-related:

• book reviews
• what I’ve been reading 
• my own attempts at creative writing, including NaNoWriMo
• original poems by me
• discussions of technical writing
• words and phrases that interest and amuse me - misspellings, misheard lyrics and so on
• famous quotations that apply to writing or reading
• anything else that comes into my head that seems relevant!

A quick bio of the author
Name: Catherine Sharp
Age: 30s
Location: Northern Ireland
Nationality: Welsh
Occupation: Technical Author
Unpaid occupations: blogger, NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison, WriMo Ireland administrator
Hobbies: blogging, reading a lot, cooking, walking, half-hearted birdwatching, tormenting my cats, general pedantry
Likes: blogging, cats, cooking, supporting the Welsh rugby team (yay! Grand Slam 2008!), gin-and-tonics, jangly guitar music
Dislikes: rogue apostrophes, writers’ block, cauliflower
Other: Member of the Institute for Scientific and Technical Communicators