Monthly Archive: August 2011

Aug
21

Things On My Mind

Wow. People are really good spammers. They’ve found a way to spam my entries while making it look like a real comment. How do I know they are spammers? They keep commenting on a picture I uploaded that has is only a part of an entry. Not that they’re commenting on the entry; they’re commenting …

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Aug
21

Thesaurus Love

This tip comes from my experience in completing the rewrites for my upcoming book. I’ve written tips on word choice before, and that fact returned to me full force, particularly this week. It is so important to keep away from passive verbs and “crutch” words–that is, those words that you tend to use all the …

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Aug
01

Week Two

I think I’ve gotten into an editing groove, but it’s still going slower than I expected. (Okay . . . and fish are jumping out of the lake and flopping back in the water as I type). So, I hope that I can get the “rough edits” done this week. Back to work. (I wonder …

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