I plan on putting out a weekly vocabulary list that I provide to my children for them to study. Below is this week’s vocabulary list as promised:
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I won’t claim to be one of those literary types who relish the idea of analyzing the differences between existentialist philosophers like Sartre, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky. Literacy isn’t a PhD in philosophy, nor does it require an elite education. I feel I am a literate person and prior to University, was a product of public […]
Anyone else despise it when people say, “I could care less”? The phrase is “I couldn’t care less” folks! Sorry – my vent for the day….
Successful authors who sell many books are business people. If you aren’t, you should be thinking like one.
When someone first sits down to write something your first instinct in an email might not be to plan out what you are writing. Let’s face it, a novel is not an email. I find it difficult to understand how someone can put “pen to paper” without a blueprint or idea of what they are […]
We now understand the basic complaints our beta readers had. Let’s take those items and use them to improve our manuscript.
Hear about the pregnant woman who went into labor & yelled,”Couldn’t! Wouldn’t! Shouldn’t! Didn’t! Can’t!”? She was having contractions.
I took a moment away from writing about literary things and wanted to finger a thief in action.
I did share (in a secure manner) my manuscript with a good variety of people and learned a series of useful tidbits. It did require separating a lot of wheat from chaff in that feedback.
Nothing annoys me more than people who profess knowledge in something when in fact they are clueless. Be that as it may, this seems to be prevalent in writing. How many people, who are otherwise unpublished or have no writing credentials whatsoever, wax professorial when giving advice to other would-be authors.
