by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
a guest post from Dandi Daley MackallDandi won her first writing contest as a 10-year-old tomboy. Her 50 words on “Why I Want to Be Batboy for the Kansas City A’s” won first place, but the team wouldn’t let a girl be batboy. It was her first taste of rejection.Since...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 2, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonIt’s time for another punctuation lesson. I know… boring! But I see colons misused often in the manuscripts of new writers, along with semicolons, dashes, and ellipses. I promise to post only one punctuation lesson a month.Today’s...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillI’ve had a few questions in the last week about writing series versus writing a stand alone book. The first writer asked, “How do you decide when to confine a story line to one book, or to have it span over a series?”Well. I think...
