Two posts in one day! I would have saved this one until tomorrow, but it was posted today and I wanted to get it up in a timely fashion. This comes from the seasontowers community which has a place called The Writer Room. It was a link to a meta post about over-used and/or unnecessary words and phrases. I know I cringed when I read it! LOL The comments ( Read more... )

Hee! And, I've been working on stuff to post - honest! It's just that it's taken all week to get this thing finished and semi-whipped into shape. Spring has sprung and my time to write at work has been seriously limited. Anyway, I do have an offering today - my thoughts on some common problems I've spotted here and there, and some suggestions ( Read more... )

Copied from anaross- this is an extension of the wonderful workshop she did at Writer Con. I highly recommend it. (Am vigorously fighting the urge to list the names of those I think could benefit from something like this. *sits on hands*) You can go to her LJ to see the prettier version of it - all that seems of have been copied are the words themselves ( Read more... )

Today’s Daily Doozy comes courtesy of member alwaysjbj who offers this excerpt from ‘Writing Good English’ by Tony Kleu http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=24521Read more... )