Thursday, May 29

Mine! Help with possessives

Thursday, May 29, 2014 Laurel Garver
Today, I'm going to cover some of the basics of expressing ownership in writing, because it's something I frequently see mangled in shop windows, on billboards, and in manuscripts. These...

Tuesday, May 20

Writing when you can't write: the magic touch

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Laurel Garver
image by penywise at morguefile.com What happens to your writing projects when you just can't write? Maybe your day job is suddenly demanding 80-hour weeks, or a family member...

Friday, May 16

Using meat, meet and mete

Friday, May 16, 2014 Laurel Garver
It seemed high time for another Phonics Friday post. Today we'll tackle a set of fraternal triplets of language, the homophones meat, meet and mete. Once again, I'll provide a...

Tuesday, May 13

Writing lessons from The Desolation of Smaug

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Laurel Garver
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug has such a mockable title, it's not much of a surprise Tolkien fans and film critics largely panned it. I'd honestly had no intention of seeing...

Monday, May 5

Mission accomplished: reflections on the A to Z challenge

Monday, May 05, 2014 Laurel Garver
I've never taken a physics course, but I know all too well the concept of inertia. One must exert force to overcome it. Those of us who have been blogging for any length of time...
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