Author: Roslyn Carrington

Roslyn Carrington has been a freelance writer, editor and proofreader for over 11 years. She has published 14 novels and has ghost-written several memoirs and non-fiction works. She writes, edits and proofreads for a variety of publications and corporate clients.

Beyond the Beaches

You’ll love visiting the deep sea habitats by RV. The creatures are weirdly beautiful. or beautifully weird.

The Deep Sea: beautiful, fascinating, creepy.

“What is it about the deep that fascinates us, enthrals us, and even scares us so much? Is it the mystery? The inaccessibility? Or just our natural curiosity?”

The Deep Sea Wonders of the Caribbean project took almost a year, but the team had great chemistry and it was a wonderful experience. I spent months going through hours of deep-sea footage taken by the EV Nautilus, captained by the renowned deep-sea biologist Dr. Robert Ballard, founder of the Ocean Exploration Trust. (He found the Titanic).

What an experience! The creatures were bizarre. The terrain reminded me of sci-fi footage from deep space movies. I literally felt cold while watching!

Here’s Episode Two.

see video 1
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Exploring the Deep Wilderness

I worked on a series of five videos on the Caribbean deep sea habitat. There’s lots to learn here.

The first in the Deep Sea series I worked on.

The video series Deep Sea Wonders of the Caribbean was one of my favourite pet projects. I was contracted to produce five scripts and one coffee table book for the National Institute of Higher Education, Research and Technology (NIHERST), a government agency I’d had long-standing affiliations with.

While I did contribute a lot of material to Episode One, I can’t claim a writing credit on it. However, the other four in the series were all mine. Enjoy this introduction.

see video 2

What are Garbage Words?

What “garbage words” are, how to spot them, and how to toss them out of your writing.

WHAT ARE GARBAGE WORDS?

Garbage words are words that clog up your writing, slow it down, and make it confusing or just downright boring. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few: “like”, “that”, and “also”. Some phrases just take up too much space. Why say “in order to” when you can say “to”? (Unless you’re paid by the word, ha ha.)

When I edit my work I take out my list of garbage words and do a search for them, one by one. When I find them I see if I can eliminate or replace them. It always makes my work cleaner!

Garbage words can also be specific to you. I know my work well enough to spot words I use over and over and over and over . . . you know what I mean. I try to cut them, too.

I’m sharing a few of my garbage words here. I hope this helps.

Garbage words

About

Actually

All

All but

Also

Anyway

But

Even

Exactly

Find oneself

Hit like a train

Huge

In order to

Just

Manage

Next

Now

Probably

Really

Right now

Smooth

Somehow

Stone cold

That

Then

Thick

Thing

Very

Waiting

Wonder

Wonderment

Sort of

Little

Quick