Wednesday, November 27, 2019
(54) HOW TO PRONOUNCE GIF! - YouTube
(54) HOW TO PRONOUNCE GIF! - YouTube: Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
What Goes In The Front Matter Of Your Book? BookBaby Blog
What Goes In The Front Matter Of Your Book? BookBaby Blog: What you include in the front matter of your book depends on the information you want to impart to your reader to help enhance, explain, or set things up.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
How to Use an Em Dash, According to Cormac McCarthy
How to Use an Em Dash, According to Cormac McCarthy: Novelist Cormac McCarthy has spent twenty years editing what feels like the opposite of a novel: scientific papers by faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute. Some of the scientists he worked with have paraphrased and compiled McCarthy’s best writing advice. It applies to all kinds of writing, from emails to novels.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Bring Back Handwriting: It’s Good for Your Brain - Elemental
Bring Back Handwriting: It’s Good for Your Brain - Elemental: Not so long ago, putting pen to paper was a fundamental feature of daily life. Journaling and diary-keeping were commonplace, and people exchanged handwritten letters with friends, loved ones, and…
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Bad vs. Badly - Grammar and Punctuation
Bad vs. Badly - Grammar and Punctuation: The word bad is an adjective used to modify nouns and pronouns. Example: She was in a bad accident. Adverbs often end in ly.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Thursday, July 4, 2019
These 5 free apps make it easy to improve your writing
These 5 free apps make it easy to improve your writing: Polish your grammar, rate your readability, train yourself to write every day, and more.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
How to Write Comedy: Using Real Life Stories for Funny Inspiration
How to Write Comedy: Using Real Life Stories for Funny Inspiration: Stephen Rosenfield shares three tips on taking a funny, real-life story and using it as the inspiration to write comedy for your audience.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
10 words per page
Ten words per page. That’s how many words get scanned the first time through. Perhaps five on a billboard. Which means that your memo, your ad, your announcement, your post–you get ten words. Highlight the ten of the 1,000 you’ve written. Which ten do you want someone to scan so that they’re intrigued enough to slow down and read the rest? If you can begin with the ten words and write around them, you have the foundation for an effective message. As Jay Levinson said, the best billboard ever said, “Free coffee, next exit.” What do we see when we scan your work?
(50) Writers' Row - YouTube
(50) Writers' Row - YouTube: David Gane and D. C. Wright-Hammer discuss writing, twitter's #writingcommunity, and the business side of being an independent author. Guests join to offer a...
Friday, June 7, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Help Me Name My Character - Every Writer
Help Me Name My Character - Every Writer: I see the questions on Twitter about once a week: Can you please help me name my characters? What is a good Swedish name for a character? I see these questions in many variations, so I thought I would put together a list of sites that help you name and define characters.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Discounts and New Writer Award
Discounts and New Writer Award: Now Accepting: New Writers Awards Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions are open for the 2019 New Writer Awards. Hundreds in cash prizes plus ...
Friday, May 24, 2019
Friday, May 17, 2019
How to Write A Pitch That Gets You Published
How to Write A Pitch That Gets You Published: Advice for pitching your creative work, with tips from editors and creative directors at National Geographic, Refinery29, Vice, and more.
These 70+ Publications Pay $1 a Word (And They’re Looking for Writers) - The International Freelancer
These 70+ Publications Pay $1 a Word (And They’re Looking for Writers) - The International Freelancer: These 70+ Publications Pay $1 a Word (And They’re Looking for Writers) - The International Freelancer |
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Book Trades | Port Book and News First St., Port Angeles
Book Trades | Port Book and News: Port Book and News accepts used books for trade Monday thru Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm.
We offer 30% of the original cover price in credit which can be used towards the purchase of new or used books.
We offer 30% of the original cover price in credit which can be used towards the purchase of new or used books.
Friday, May 10, 2019
10 Words Editors Hate - Every Writer
10 Words Editors Hate - Every Writer: 10 Words Editors Hate We are talking about literary writing here, in most cases. Genre writing tends to be a little different, and some of these words are
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Should People Stop Saying "Absolutely" So Much? Absolutely! - A Short Rant on an Overused Expression and Why it Should be Avoided - Community in Mission
Should People Stop Saying "Absolutely" So Much? Absolutely! - A Short Rant on an Overused Expression and Why it Should be Avoided - Community in Mission: One of the most overused terms in modern speech is the word “absolutely.” As in, “Do you want some gravy with those potatoes?” “Absolutely!” Or, “Would you agree that solution ‘X’ is the best solution to problem ‘Y’?” “Absolutely!” What to call this … an expression? A semantic substitution for “yes?” A logism? A hyperbole? … Continue reading "Should People Stop Saying "Absolutely" So Much? Absolutely! – A Short Rant on an Overused Expression and Why it Should be Avoided"
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
May 2019 | Poetry Magazine | Poetry Foundation
May 2019 | Poetry Magazine | Poetry Foundation: Shane McCrae, Ariana Reines, Philip Metres, Catherine Wagner, T.J. Jarrett, Bianca Stone, Charif Shanahan, Martha Serpas, David Harsent, Miller Oberman, Anthony Anaxagorou, Paula Bohince, Devin Johnston, Ron Padgett, Emily Liebowitz, Natalie Eilbert, Randall Horton, Richard Garcia, Dunya Mikhail, David Baker, Lily Zhou, Elaine Equi, John Skoyles, Melissa Studdard, and others.
Monday, May 6, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Using Tumeric??
Don't take Tumeric with blood-thinners including warfarin (Coumadin), clopidogrel (Plavix), and aspirin, among others.
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