I have decided to finally flesh out my writing page with more detail. Writing blurbs is the bane of my existence (okay, that is harsh, but I find blurb writing harder than a lot of other writing), so it might take me a while to get things the way I want them. This leaves me [...]
Sometimes writing completely consumes me. All I want to do is write. I write in between studio calls at work, I write in the car during lunch break, and I write from the moment I get home until Bubba forces me to stop and go to bed. In bed, before I fall asleep, I think [...]
Ah, grammar, how I love thee. I read Strunk & White’s Elements of Style yearly, follow Grammar Girl’s podcasts religiously, and look up at least one grammar tip every day. I correct grammar in my head when I listen to people talk (even in church, where I should really ignore the grammar and only focus [...]
Tomorrow kicks off the official start of Banned Books Week. If you have been following my blog, you have probably gotten the impression this is something I am passionate about. The impression is right. Censorship is NO GOOD. It angers me every time I hear of a person, or a group of people, demanding a [...]
Happy National Punctuation day! Posts in honor of National Punctuation Day have been popping up all over the interwebs today. Some of my favorites are: At Barnes&Noble.com, you can learn (finally!) how to correctly use the hyphen. Seriously, incorrectly used hyphens grate at me. There is a difference between a hyphen, an em dash, and [...]
Or: The Parable of the Wise Chinese Man* But first, the obligatory links and a little clean-up from yesterday’s post… I am super, super excited to learn that Stephenie Meyer’s The Host has been optioned and is on its way to the big screen! The Host is my favorite of Meyer’s books, and with Andrew [...]
Continuing our discussion of banned books (and gearing up for Banned Book Week), check out this awesome post by Laurie Halse Anderson about schools trying to ban her books. The excerpts from her readers’ letters are especially powerful. So, I had started writing a different post today (which will now be posted tomorrow), but after [...]
Actually, the title of this post should be 11 Writing Tips–ten from me and one from Colleen Lindsay, who has a blog post up today reminding all writers why we need to put contact info on manuscripts (aside from the obvious DUH factor). Today a fourteen-year-old girl asked me for writing advice. I won’t go [...]
Do you read banned books? Let the world know. The American Library Association has a great selection of products to help you show your support of Banned Books Week. Surprisingly, that is it for links today. Personality Toolkit: Determination Everything I have talked about with the Personality Toolkit this last week boils down to one [...]
First off, sorry for not posting this yesterday. The interwebs decided they hated me and wouldn’t let me submit. Urg. As many of you already know, Ellen Hopkins is feeling the burn of book banners. She was set for a school visit in OK; when a couple days before the visit, one parent demanded her [...]
