Writing

Tension and Growth
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October 31, 2019
Somebody, somewhere must’ve said, “Life is Growth.” While we’re alive, we experience change and we learn from it.
The Fifth Estate includes social media, blogs, the internet in general, and all of us.
Several times a week, the Central Phoenix Writers Workshop meets to critique and commiserate.
Rules o’ Ritin’
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January 28, 2019
There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice…
Since 1999, this annual event has helped motivate authors, including lots of wannabes like myself, complete book-length 50,000 word pieces in the month of November.
Adverb’s Disease
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September 22, 2016
My writing is afflicted with a horrible disease. Adverb’s Disease shows as weak little words attached to verbs.
Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft.
Third Person Point-of-View A lot of books are told by a narrator.

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