March 2016 ~ Laurel's Leaves

Wednesday, March 23

A basket of writing prompts for spring

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Laurel Garver

Seasonal prompts can be helpful in your routine, to get you paying attention to your immediate environment and the sensory experiences you can collect. It can also get you thinking...

Wednesday, March 16

Spatial surety: moving characters around buildings

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Laurel Garver

Photo credit: melschmitz, morguefile.com Detective Fredricks completes his investigation of the dining room, then he... goes through the French doors to examine the...

Wednesday, March 9

Rough or a route? Using coarse vs. course

Wednesday, March 09, 2016 Laurel Garver

Today we're tackling a set of fraternal twins of language, the homophones coarse and course. Once again, I'll provide a definition, examples and mnemonic tricks to help you keep...

Wednesday, March 2

Word smart: jealousy vs. envy

Wednesday, March 02, 2016 Laurel Garver

Welcome to my new periodic series I'm calling "Word Smart," an expansion of my "Homophone Helps" series. In it, we will look at two words and/or concepts that writers confuse,...

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