More Advice on Writing Paul got us off to such a great start with the writing meme that I decided to play, too!…

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Tonight we will be snuggling in our cozy abode with a roaring fire and the white lights on the Christmas tree providing holiday…

That’s the challenge that has been extended to bloggers. As if NaNoWriMo weren’t intense enough (and so much so that I could not,…

Back in March 2005, I founded my site on Blogger. My goal was simple: I just wanted to write. And I hoped someone…

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about comment moderation. Since then I have noted that the dialogue among bloggers about comments has intensified,…

I am not participating in NaNoWriMo this year. The time commitment is simply too much at this point. Additionally, as I have mentioned…

I am delighted by the vigorous debate that my articles have inspired over the past couple of weeks. From such enthusiastic conversation, we…

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There’s an ongoing discussion among bloggers concerning comments. Every so often, the dialogue intensifies before going to the back burner again, only to…

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To comma or not to comma. That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler and appropriate to place a comma after “and” and “or”…

When reviewing a document someone else has written or receiving feedback from others on my own writing, there is one word that I, like most other serious writers, strive never to utter or hear: Comma.

Everyone has an opinion and his/her own writing style vis a vis the use of commas, the most abused and overused item of punctuation in the English language. Want to start a heated debate among writers? Just ask one simple question, duck and run, because there is likely to be vociferous disagreement about the answer to this query:

“Should there be a comma after that word?”

My first reaction was, “Are you kidding me?” Fifty thousand words? In only 30 days? This is not the article I intended to…