Writers have to deliver camera-ready prose now. There’s nobody on the publishing end to help any more. Further, they have to do their own publicity. Social media etc. There’s nobody there for that either.In fact the ‘publishers’ only publish, that is, own the media. That’s all that’s left. They gate-keep and take a cut.
So, how I remember: If the lighted half is like the bottom of a lower-case ‘d’ then its ‘decreasing’. If it’s like a small ‘b’ then its getting ‘bigger’
That cottage has a front porch, a back deck and an upstairs. Plenty of room.Also, there’s ‘going into town’.