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by Word Alive Press
Throughout the year, I’ve written on this blog a lot about the many hallmarks of inexperienced writers. My posts have ranged from commas punctuat...
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by Word Alive Press
On the evening of November 7, 2013, a small group of readers gathered at my home to hear the first reading from my second book, The City of Darkn...
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by Word Alive Press
Any observant reader may notice that the English language is not quite punctuated uniformly. While most punctuations rules are hard and fast, the...
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by Word Alive Press
I have a few different fingers in the publishing pie. I wouldn’t be writing for this blog if I wasn’t a writer, but that’s not the aspect of publ...
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by Word Alive Press
While suffering through high school math classes, I used to slouch in my desk chair as the teacher scrawled out long, blackboard-spanning explana...
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by Word Alive Press
The semicolon is one of the most divisive and misused punctuation marks in the English language; the evidence is all around us. (See what I did t...
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by Word Alive Press
On Wednesday, I talked about the print materials I included with the press kit for the first book in my current series. If you want to make an inde...
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by Word Alive Press
Marketing doesn’t come easily or naturally to me. It surprises me that there are any writers out there who enjoy hawking their books. I accept th...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most basic and important skills in writing fiction—and also in non-fiction, though to a slightly lesser degree—is mastering the use of...
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by Word Alive Press
As an editor, one of the things I find authors struggle with the most is point of view. It seems to me that a lot of people sit down to write hav...
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by Word Alive Press
Progress rarely happens in a straight line. It isn’t steady. It isn’t stable. Rather, it happens in fits and starts. For example, when you’re try...
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by Word Alive Press
Originally published on The Fictorians blogFor most of my life, I have been striving to become a writer. One day, I thought, I will be a writer. ...
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