Laughter Lifts the Heart
Several years into it, and this blog still refuses to be categorized. It's eclectic and includes everything from writing posts to snippets from my ordinary life. Welcome to this crazy place. You're bound to find something you like.
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Give the Lady a Ride
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 1
The Final Ride
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 2
Ride to the Altar
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 3
Circle Bar Ranch Coloring Book
The Cowboys
A Southern Season
Skydiving to Love: a Novella
The Cat Lady’s Secret
Writing in Obedience
A Christian Writers Guide
Tag Archives: grammar
The Importance of the Copy Edit
A friend is doing a massive favor for me and the other authors of a collection we’ve already released. She’s doing the copy edit we should’ve done to begin with. Even though I had already edited the bulk of the … Continue reading
Posted in editing, write tips, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged content editing, copy editing, edit, editing, editors, grammar, punctuation, sentence construction, Writing
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Writer’s Tools–Use ‘Em Right
In “Five Quick Steps Toward More Mature Writing,” I mentioned that ellipses, dashes, semicolons, colons, and italic are “specialty tools” to be used infrequently so as not to dilute their effectiveness. Certain sentence structures fall in the category of “specialty tools,” … Continue reading
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Tagged figurative language, grammar, paragraph structure, punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary, Writing
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Getting to the Root of the Problem
Not long ago, Daily Writing Tips answered the question: “Is Inferencing a Word?” I could tell Maeve Maddox cringed as deeply as I did when she looked it up and discovered it in the psycholinguistic lexicon. Guess what it means? Inferring. … Continue reading
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Tagged education, English language, grammar, prefix, root words, suffix
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What’s the Subject? Grammar Oversimplified
For many of us, if we were ever required to do it at all, it has been ages since we’ve diagrammed a sentence. I actually have a book on how to do it on my wish list in Amazon. Even … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Tips
Tagged CMOS, comma placement, compound sentences, gerund phrase, grammar, participle phrase, sentence construction, serial comma
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Super Sentences
I’m not too far in this book because I’m such a slow reader–for a couple of reasons. I don’t have as much time to read as I’d like, and when I do read, I tend to savor and enjoy and … Continue reading
Him ‘n’ I
Him and I went to the beach! Sand got all over him and I. Cringing yet? Since most of the folks who read this blog are writers, I know I’m about to preach to the choir, but I heard “him … Continue reading
Verbal Deprivation
Authors are depriving themselves. I don’t know why, but for some reason, certain words and verb tenses have landed on someone’s “hit list,” and consequently have become taboo–to the detriment of clarity in our writing. I don’t know who that … Continue reading
The Lofty Semicolon
As in all professions–all of life, actually–there are people behind the scenes known only as “the powers that be,” the nebulous and unidentified “they.” The same is true for authors. Whoever “they” are, those powers that be, they have deemed … Continue reading
Posted in editing, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged fiction, grammar, nonfiction, scholastic, semicolon
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