Our guest this week is a pal of mine from Absolute Write. We hang out together at Grandma Susie’s (it’s a whole story by itself), and she’s a lot of fun to trade banter with. She’s also a trade-published author…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Interview with Cathleen Townsend #BlogBattle “Cave” Winner
Originally posted on Rachael Ritchey:
Cathleen Townsend has arrived from her own blog, The Beauty of Words. I’m so pleased to have her as our guest today. Did you know she won last week’s #BlogBattle? The word was CAVE, and hers…
Tagged with: Blog Battle, Cathleen Townsend, Cave Rendezvous, interview
Posted in About Cathleen Townsend
Posted in About Cathleen Townsend
Interview with E. Rawls
This week’s guest is E. Rawls, who dwells in imaginary worlds, and dreams of becoming an epic swordsmaster, learning how to ride a wild dragon, mastering the art of drawing, painting, and to one day fluently speak Tolkien’s language of the Elves.…
Ten Ways to Use Hyphens with Numbers
Do I hyphenate twentieth-century or not? And what about one-and-a-half? It can be confusing. First of all, Grammar Book cautions us that when hyphens are used to indicate a range, as in 30-40 yards away, a space is never used around…
Tagged with: Cathleen Townsend, compound numbers, fractions, hyphenate, hyphenating, hyphens, numbers
Posted in Writing
Posted in Writing
Play Fortunately, Unfortunately–And Liven Up Your Plot
Today’s post is an absolutely brilliant one by Emma Darwin on adding conflict. I tend to go too easy on my characters at times. I love them too much, and when I have to make their lives a living hell,…
34 Writing Terms For Serious Writers
Part of being a writer is expanding your knowledge of our craft. A better vocabulary about the technical aspects of writing can help you to become a more proficient wordsmith. It’s very difficult to speak intelligently about something if you…
74 Blog Titles to Give Your Blog a Boost
I found these on Paula Reed Nancarrow’s excellent blog, which I highly recommend, here: http://paulareednancarrow.com/2014/11/23/what-no-one-tells-you-about-popular-posts/, and her source is quoted at the bottom of the image. We all hope that the blogs that we throw our hearts into will be the…
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