I ran across this blog post in defense of the world’s most controversial punctuation mark, and had to share it with you. The post was originally featured on The Writer. — Less than one-third of a second. Can you comprehend that length of time? One-third of a second is a tad less than the time […]
Did you know that March 4 was National Grammar Day? For people like me, this was a major event! Please comment below about your pet grammar peeves, the funniest grammar mistakes you’ve seen, or the most embarrassing grammar mistakes you’ve made. My personal pet grammar peeve is the dictionary having two definitions for literally that […]
When something happens that is irritating or frustrating or worrisome or disconcerting … give it some TLC2. Talk to God about it. Tell Him what’s on your heart. Don’t go blabbing about it to others until after you’ve discussed it with your heavenly Father, so He can give you the right perspective. Then, if you […]
In my Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, I address the myth that writers should never start a sentence with a conjunction (and, or, nor, because, for, yet, so, since, unless, until). But I recently heard that there’s a new “rule” floating around in the industry that says that starting a sentence with an -ing word […]
I recently read an online article titled “Amazon: Christian Authors Beware”. In it the author (not named) bemoans that “Amazon is a massive giant and growing.” Two bulleted lists of “facts” and “factoids” were given (without attribution, citation, or documentation, so there’s no way to verify the statements). Then the author asserts that Amazon is not “friendly” […]
I’m so grateful to have my friend Shadia Hrichi returning as a guest on my blog and hope her post encourages you too! — “Ha! We took bets on whether you could color outside the lines – the resounding answer was NO.” That was my friend’s response after seeing my first masterpiece. It happened about […]
If you’re one of the hundred or so people who entered the Promising Beginnings contest but didn’t win a free conference scholarship, you may enjoy this article written by Tamela Hancock Murray, literary agent with the Steve Laube Agency. — Any author who’s entered contests knows that they are difficult to win. The competition is […]
One of the winners of my sixth annual Promising Beginnings Writing Contest is Tom Threadgill, for his fiction work One for Sorrow. Tom won a full scholarship to the 2018 Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference. Tom Threadgill turned his love of a good tale into a full-time profession. His books have a distinct focus on […]
