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An Introduction
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert Olen Butler, the process of writing is not intellectual, but emotional, and it is necessary to enter our dreamspace in order to write honest, inspired...
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The Second Draft
You are ready to edit into your second draft. First, do the mundane stuff: Run spellcheck, only do not depend on spellcheck to catch everything. Check grammar and punctuation Look for those extraneous...
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Writing and Bowling
First, my sincere apologies for not having updated this blog for so long. Last week we found out my husband has melanoma, and it knocked us both sideways a bit. Today is exploratory surgery, and we...
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The Need for Constructive “Critters”
Best intentions. Good bloggers blog at least once a week, twice is even better. Yes, I realize I am not one of those. I will try harder, but guarantee nothing. I keep discovering interesting new...
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Show and Tell
Remember Show and Tell from Elementary School? It wasn’t Show versus Tell, or Show instead of Tell, it was Show and Tell. Show, don’t Tell, is what the writer is continually told, and this is good...
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SOMEONE HAS
Ever wish someone would surf through all those writing, publishing and marketing blogs, pick out the best and most informative ones and drop them in your email? Someone has. His name is Gene Lempp,...
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A Loss for Words?
Photo by Alie Krohn, Photostream Creative Commons “What the hell kind of people read books about words?” I love this. I took it from a interview with one of my favorite people who is also an author...
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