More Advice on Writing Paul got us off to such a great start with the writing meme that I decided to play, too! Just to review, his wife tagged him…
My sister gave my mother one of those Hallmark books designed to hold the family’s history, as recorded by the grandmother. It was pretty and contained a lot of questions…
Any writer who tells you that he/she does not care whether his/her written work finds an audience is a disingenuous writer. Intellectually dishonest. We all want someone to read what…
How do you go about your writing? That’s the question recently posed by another blogger. I’m a creature of habit so I always write in the same spot: Right here…
Tonight we will be snuggling in our cozy abode with a roaring fire and the white lights on the Christmas tree providing holiday ambiance for the last time before the…
It’s here! Finally, Christmas Eve has arrived. For many Christians, this is the most important night of the year and tomorrow the most important day, arguably trumped only by Easter Sunday in some folks’ minds. Does it seem to you like it has been Christmas for months? It does to me since many folks around
That’s the challenge that has been extended to bloggers. As if NaNoWriMo weren’t intense enough (and so much so that I could not, due to my other commitments, participate this…
Back in March 2005, I founded my site on Blogger. My goal was simple: I just wanted to write. And I hoped someone would read my writing. But more than…
‘Tis the season to decorate our homes, shop for gifts, and attend oodles of school programs and events, office parties, and church and community functions. Between all of those activities,…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about comment moderation. Since then I have noted that the dialogue among bloggers about comments has intensified, but it is not limited to just…
I am not participating in NaNoWriMo this year. The time commitment is simply too much at this point. Additionally, as I have mentioned before, I do not write fiction. Every…
I am delighted by the vigorous debate that my articles have inspired over the past couple of weeks. From such enthusiastic conversation, we all learn a great deal, not to…
Everyone who knows me or reads my personal blog knows that I am a fanatic for “The Sopranos.” (And yes, I’m still mourning the series and hoping that David Chase…
There’s an ongoing discussion among bloggers concerning comments. Every so often, the dialogue intensifies before going to the back burner again, only to be revived periodically. In the process, volumes…
Spelling errors are one of my all-time peeves. Why? Because in a matter of seconds, you can refer to a dictionary to see if you are spelling a word correctly.…
To comma or not to comma. That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler and appropriate to place a comma after “and” and “or” when writing a list of three or…
When reviewing a document someone else has written or receiving feedback from others on my own writing, there is one word that I, like most other serious writers, strive never to utter or hear: Comma.
Everyone has an opinion and his/her own writing style vis a vis the use of commas, the most abused and overused item of punctuation in the English language. Want to start a heated debate among writers? Just ask one simple question, duck and run, because there is likely to be vociferous disagreement about the answer to this query:
“Should there be a comma after that word?”
As a civil rights attorney, I counsel folks who have been subjected to injustice about their rights and the remedies the legal system can provide them. Frequently, they have suffered…
Consider this observation by Tim Rutten, writing in the LA Times: “O.J. Simpson’s trial and acquittal on charges that he murdered his ex-wife and Goldman have spawned a small library…
My first reaction was, “Are you kidding me?” Fifty thousand words? In only 30 days? This is not the article I intended to write today. But when I saw a…