June 2011

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I am off to drop off Ray at Grandparent camp, after three days of, “Is it time to go yet?”  This log will more than likely remain quiet until next week after the holiday…have a lovely week!

It suddenly occurs to me that I can brag about getting nice reviews!  I mean, I’m not the brightest lightning bug in the woods, but it does sink in eventually… The folks over at Bab’s Book Bistro reviewed Death by Chocolate.  Is sooo nice 🙂 If you’d like to check out the book, it’s at Smashwords, Amazon, and Barnes

The folks over at Bab’s Book Bistro reviewed Death by Chocolate.  Is sooo nice 🙂 You can buy the book at Smashwords, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.

As you’re getting ready to edit your first story, there are some choices that you need to make.  (You’ll probably only need to make them once.  Except in the case of the template; you’ll be fiddling with what seems like forever.) You’ll need to: Pick a dictionary. Pick a style guide. Set up a clean template,

Patience. Writers in the NY publishing business have to plan for massively, surprisingly good things to happen.  Books really do sell, and the advance is big, and everything’s shiny for a while.  Things go downhill…and they need another big hit to keep going.  Lurching from advance to advance, writers with the NY publishers make a

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I have stuff to celebrate today!  No new book contracts or anything, but good stuff.  Plus, I have enough on the alien feast done that I don’t want to spend an hour researching stuff this morning…WRITECITEMENT! I bought up the leftover Choose Your Doom:  Zombie Apocalypse books back from the Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference.  So

To start out with, I want to define two terms for the context of what I’m writing: Editing Rewriting Editing is when you fiddle with the small details, using your editor brain. Rewriting is when you fiddle with the larger details (style is a larger detail made up of many small choices, by the way),

I admit that I haven’t studied much of linguistics.  I’m reading The Stuff of Thought:  Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Steven Pinker, and it seems like one of the base assumptions that I have never seen questioned (not just in this book so far, but in all the limited linguistics that I’ve