Wednesday, January 27

Help! Critique partners bash my use of dialect

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Laurel Garver
Dear Editor-on-call, Photo credit: Sgarton from www.morguefile.com How do we figure out where the line is between a stylized voice/dialect vs. proper grammar? I know this...

Wednesday, January 20

How I do it: identifying story weaknesses

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Laurel Garver
In a previous post, How I do it: keeping revisions organized, I discussed my method for tracing particular revision threads throughout a  novel manuscript, tracking them,...

Wednesday, January 13

The center or the squad? Using core and corps

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 Laurel Garver
For today's phonics fun, I'd like to tackle a pair of homophones, pronounced /koar/ I've seen misused even in published books, though not because the spellings are at all...

Wednesday, January 6

Following your star: Focus, change, and an "unresolution"

Wednesday, January 06, 2016 Laurel Garver
Today, January 6, is Epiphany, celebrating the "wise men from the East" coming to honor the Christ child. The Magi had been watching for something good and were willing to make...
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