The Scary Semi-Colon

January 20, 2012

Tweet My intention was to cover the comma in a series of posts (no pun intended) but this morning I had an adventure when Mr. Bessie, my Jack Russell terrier, decided to run off and visit one of the many B&Bs here at the beach. I had a two hour scare, but all’s well that [...]

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Flip Dictionary, by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D.

January 19, 2012

Tweet Flip Dictionary By Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D. Writer’s Digest Books, 2000 693 pages I skipped yesterday’s post in protest of SOPA, not that I think this site would ever get censored but you never know. Writing a novel that’s critical of our policies, and whose characters admire an alleged spy and a former blacklisted [...]

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The Continuing Story of the Julius Revision

January 16, 2012

Tweet It’s been several months after I got my kick in the gut critique and after some time of mulling the story over, I went ahead and opened a new Scrivener project, saved it as Julius 2012 and started to outline. I kept the prologue, but changed the voice to the second person. I was [...]

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