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Writing Hack: Sharpen Your Sentences

September 9, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  9 Comments

For the first, oh, decade or so of my writing career, I thought my writing was pretty good. So I didn’t understand why magazine editors found it necessary to take my perfectly serviceable sentences and render them “less interesting.” That …

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Top Ten Ways to Declutter Your Writer Brain

July 9, 2020 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  22 Comments

blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

declutter your writer brainAre these THE Top Ten ways to declutter your writer brain? More accurately, they are a few of the ways. But that would have made the title too long and not great for search engine optimization. (SEO–We …

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Promised Yourself Last Summer

June 4, 2020 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  13 Comments

 

summer promiseWe’re on the cusp of another summer. In parts of our country, that means the grills are being uncovered after a long winter’s hiatus. In other parts, the grills are being pulled back under the pergola for a little …

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Five Flagrant Fiction Flubs

April 23, 2020 //  by Wendy Lawton//  7 Comments

When I read fiction for pleasure I strive to turn off the “internal editor” as I read, but lately I’ve come across a number of glaring mistakes that pull me right out of the story. Let me address five of …

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The Laugh-Cry Formula for Writing

February 9, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

Long ago and far away, I was employed by a non-profit that had developed a large publications department. We produced everything imaginable in print, including books for all age groups and a magazine with millions of readers. While working there, …

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How Many Words?

January 26, 2020 //  by Wendy Lawton//  8 Comments

A couple of years ago I ordered the bundled ebook of A Game of Thrones. It weighed in at 3936 pages! I’m just thankful I don’t have to lift the book in order to read it. We all hear …

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Too Fast?

December 4, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  18 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

Anyone who is trying to build a career as a writer knows that making a living in the early years is an almost impossible challenge. But when a writer has sold a couple of books and had …

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Tidying Up Your Grammar

September 4, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  24 Comments

By Janet Kobobel Grant

I’ve been editing in one capacity or another all of my adult life. Why, I just finished editing my grandson’s résumé for his first job out of college. And I’ve edited all sorts of work-related documents, …

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Quick Character Labels

March 17, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  10 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

I was reading a fiction manuscript last week that quickly described a character as a cripple. I winced when I read the word and stopped to think about why I had such an immediate revulsion. After all, …

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A Manuscript’s Death Knell

March 13, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

by Janet Kobobel Grant

I’ve previously extolled the benefits for me in reading Publishers Weekly. Each issue I peruse provides me with some insight or confirms I’m correct (or that I’m incorrect) about some aspect of publishing. Because publishing is …

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