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by Word Alive Press
I’m moving this week, and it’s not just any move: I’m a first-time homeowner, which means the last few weeks—as well as this one—have been cramme...
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by Word Alive Press
If you’ve received even cursory instruction in creative writing—such as the limited kind you get in grade school—you’ve probably heard the old ax...
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by Word Alive Press
Let me open today’s post with an example from my own experience. About a year ago, I sat down to critique a novel. In the opening scene, the stor...
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by Word Alive Press
So you’ve written a book. You’ve typed the last word. You feel a surge of pride and accomplishment. Among all the other things you’ve done in your ...
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by Word Alive Press
A reader of the blog recently asked some important questions about writing that I’m sure a lot of other writers share. I know that similar concer...
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by Word Alive Press
Very rarely, I edit a manuscript that is so sparsely written that it ends up getting longer through standard revisions. I know a number of authors ...
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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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