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A Sandwich Always Requires a Good Amount of Meat
I love a good sandwich. Give me a good sandwich, a handful of chips and an Izze and life is good. But here’s the thing, screw up that sandwich and I will be one unhappy camper; especially if you skimp...
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Practice Safe Text
We are writers. Because we are writers, we need to make sure that all of the things we write are indicative of what we do. What does that mean exactly? The short version? If you are writing it, make...
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The Rule of Thumb is ….Use Your Fingers
Rules…. I almost don’t have to say anything else. I can hear many of you cringing as you read the word out loud. Do you know why? Because rules, while necessary in things like gravity and physics, can...
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Shut up Already
Dialogue. How do you know when you’ve used it too much? The answer, like most answers, can be found in everyday life with a bit of common sense. You know when you talk too much…people get that...
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Don’t Mess with Me…I Know Words!
When was the last time you used a new word in your vocabulary? When I was a kid my mom used to make us look up a new word every day and at the end of the day we had to tell her what it meant and use it...
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Those Baby Seals are Quite the Party Animals with the Wrong Punctuation
I do a lot of my writing in a lot of different word processing programs. I use MS Word, but it makes me feel like I am behind the times when I do. I use Scrivener because it is cool and then there are...
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Book Parenting 101- Give Us a Hug
Writing is a very personal thing. Me? I love my writing. Not in that narcissistic way that Kayne West loves himself, but in a warm fuzzy way…a way that says, I worked hard to create you and now,...
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USE YOUR WORDS!
Okay, so I stole this from my mom who used to bellow it out whenever one of us kids was making more noise than necessary to get a point across. It works for today’s column too. Let’s take a moment to...
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The 7 Deadly Sins of the Writer
Okay, let’s start by agreeing that, to some degree, sinning is fun. Maybe not altogether right, but fun just the same. Here we aren’t talking about that kind of sinning. Here we are talking about the...
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Look Universe….I’m Paying Attention!
Life is messy. This has never been so evident for me as it is right now. We have had a hectic year with grown children coming and going, grandkids introduced to the household then ripped away, gas...
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Traditional Books vs. Digital – No Yelling Allowed
So here I am this morning wading into a debate that has been raging ever since the first e-book came out. Do we respect the traditional book…you know the ones made of paper that you can hold in your...
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