Knowing the difference between pastime and past time is long overdue.
Pastime (note the one t) is a hobby or activity that a person enjoys doing. For example, One of Emily’s favorite pastimes in Los Angeles was people watching.
Past time is a phrase meaning “should have already happened.” To wit, “It’s long since past time that you got your homework done,” mom said.
Hopefully, making this error will no longer be a pastime of writers.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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