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Writing Tips
[QW19] (Save early) + (Save often) = No regrets
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Okay. I admit it. I don’t mess up files very often, because I usually follow my process. Only ... this time, I didn't. Translated: “It was [almost literally] crying jag time.”...
Kathie’s ‘take’ on Hemingway Editor
I'm open to saving editing bucks when I can. Although most...
[QW16] Is ‘farther’ or ‘further’ correct?
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] I don't provide a lot of grammar-type Quick Wins nowadays (let me know if you'd like to see those, again), but I thought it was time to throw this one into the mix. In my...
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[QW15] Taming your ‘Save As’ list in MS Office
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] OK now. Seriously. Am I the only person fed up with the cumbersome ‘Save As’ list in MS Office products? That puppy seems to go on forEVer. In reality, this is our 'Recent...
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[QW9] – Adding professional bullets to your LinkedIn profile
[ My Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Yeees, I know LinkedIn® has a way to add bullet points to your About section. But the ones I've seen are unprofessional ('cutesy' icons, really), and LinkedIn keeps...
4 money-saving steps to your first draft
It's an unhappy moment. An editor tells an author they need the first draft copy before editing can begin. The writer is dumbfounded. Isn't that what they emailed? No. They sent months (or years) of musings. Maybe the file was run through spell check. But it's...
Check out these writing tips from author Jerry B. Jenkins. For reals!
A publisher buddy, Brian K. Morris (Rising Tide Publications), sent me a...
Plural Puzzlers
No! Don’t listen to Obi-Wan! Don’t 'move along.' It’s time we face the music on these words, because we tend to spell (and say) their plural forms incorrectly. When I see these in clients' files, it takes time to correct them. Of course, this means more cost to the...
WHAT is ‘parallel structure’ ?!
OK. You’ve received a digital hand slap from your online English instructor, or the teacher at your school 'bled all over' your report in red ink. The comment was something about needing 'parallel structure' on your lists. What in the world is parallel structure ?...
‘Actually’ + ‘Literally’ = Yikes!
“What did I say? Did I start my sentence ... with ... ‘actually’?” Not Kathie York, the grammar doyenne! Surely not. Unfortunately, Mrs. York’s Mr. York – with a twinkle in his eye because he’d caught me in a 'filler' word faux pas – corroborated it: “Yes, you...
Helpful Tidbits from the Writing World
As you might imagine, I get a lot of questions from people concerning writing and grammar. Tidbits, here and there. Nothing formal. I decided to pop three items into this post: "So … what the heck do 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' mean?" "Have the semicolon rules changed?" “When...
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