Edit Me: Coloring for the Visual Learner
Photo Credit Whether editing your own work or someone else's, it's important to not just mark/correct mistakes, but to also highlight a writer's weaknesses. Mistakes are those errors that everyone makes - typos, misplaced punctuation, and occasional misuse of they're/their/there. These are quick fixes. Weaknesses, however, are consistent [...]
Featured Author: Cleo Lampos
Today it's my pleasure to introduce you to Cleo Lampos - writer, teacher, toast-lover. --- Please tell us a little bit about yourself. My childhood influenced so much of my adult life. Born in Colorado, my father died when I was three years old with a sister two years older [...]
Writing the Right Way
Do you write on a PC or Mac? Maybe you prefer a legal pad and pen, or even a typewriter. All great options, but which is the correct way to write? Photo Credit That question looks a little silly when I write it, but I've come to realize [...]
All Things Writing: The Senses – Taste
Photo Credit You can't taste a scene. It's just not possible. When your character walks into a room, she can see, hear, smell, even feel the atmosphere, but she can't taste it unless she's licking the floor. Ew. That doesn't mean, however, that the only time you can [...]
The Odd Characters by Carole Brown
“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it.” Luke 19:41 “And when he’d made a whip, he drove those who sold oxen and sheep and doves and the money changers from the temple.” Jesus wasn’t a character but a real live person who had [...]