Thank you, Lillie, for awarding me the Happy 101 Award. As she puts it: “To accept the award, I am to list ten things that make me happy, then pass the award to five other bloggers. Our society so often focuses on the negative rather than positive, on what’s wrong…
Joyful and Jubilant
Hey, folks, I’m going to have a post up at Joyful Jubilant Learning on Wednesday, December 2nd … be there, or be square! The month’s theme? Returning Home for the Holidays.
Putting Together the Pieces
Do you know what my favorite part of writing fiction is? Putting the pieces together. See, the best fiction … heck, the best writing … starts with a single germ of an idea. Something that sparks. Something that sets off a chain reaction. If you’re lucky, that one thing is…
Is What You Write More Important than How You Write it?
Write the Way You Talk You have heard this “rule,” haven’t you? It’s all the rage these days. Internet gurus tell their initiates that all they need to do to gain thousands of readers or sell gazillions of widgets is to simply Write the Way You Talk. They insist that…
What IS an E-Book?
How do you define an ebook? I’ve been reading a lot about ebooks lately, and it’s made me realize that there are really two, entirely separate meanings to the word. Well, yes, either way, the “e” stands for electronic, as opposed to the “dead tree” edition of books that all…
Celebrate!
Okay … birthday cake for everybody!
BTT: Writing Challenge
There’s a weekly meme over at Booking Through Thursday which is usually based on reading, but this week, it was geared toward writing, so I thought I’d chime in here. Everybody (meaning you) is free to play along–all you need to do is post an answer on your blog and…
Guesting
If you haven’t seen it, I’ve got a guest-post over at Laura’s Writing Thoughts today. Go over and read it and then, after, go read the rest of her blog, if you haven’t already. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make small talk and see if there’s anything…
National Grammar Day
Well, I wish I’d known this yesterday…. Not only was March Fourth the only day on the calendar that is a complete sentence, but it was also National Grammar Day. Who knew? (I mean, other than Sharon at Daily Writing Tips, which is where I saw it.)
All Winners
Of course, I should probably have posted about this earlier (and maybe gotten some more votes), but Laura over at the Writing Thoughts blog recently asked for votes for favorite writing blogs, and mine came up as one of the winners. I’m in excellent company, and I wanted to spread…
Eep!
Eep! My sidebar disappeared and I have NO idea why. I’m looking, but since I know practically nothing about CSS, um, well, at least the POSTS are still showing…. Any suggestions? I swear, all I was trying to do was add the phrase “Join the discussion” next to the Comments…
Yes, it’s off-topic
Hey folks–I know it has nothing to do with writing or manners or any of the things I usually talk about–but if you’re even remotely a “crafty” kind of person, would you be willing to do me a favor and come take a survey about online knitting lessons? It would…
Connecting Words
Okay, Joanna and Brad are asking about “connecting words,” and they don’t mean conjunctions like “and” or “but.” No, what they’re looking for are unique, or treasured words that we’ve found out and about in our daily travels, words that might not be common usage, or often heard, but which…
Annually
birth[noun]1. The act or instance of being born <biology class will be showing a movie of the birth of kittens> Synonyms: nativity Related Words: creation, genesis, origination, rise; bearing, childbearing, labor, parturition; begetting, breeding, fathering, generation, mothering, reproduction, siring, spawning; fatherhood, maternity, motherhood, parenthood, paternity Yep, it’s my birthday. And,…