Will the dictionary tell us whether to use “orange juice,” “orange-juice,” or orangejuice”? What’s the difference between red, white, and blue flags compared to red-white-and-blue?
Seminar rooms fill with people wanting to know the best marketing approach so they can be equally successful.
When should “backdoor,” “backseat,” or “rearview” be one word, and when should it be two? Instead of rules, let’s look at the principle. Understand that, and you’ll have a good feel for what works best.
The tool used to clear food stuck between teeth has other uses, but to build magnificent building models requires talent. How are they built? Stan Munro does it one toothpick...
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Seminars are taught on “point of view,” the perspective from which a story is told. Because readers today want to identify with the main character in a scene, we should...
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Because we no longer have typewriters, schools now teach “keyboarding.” Use of a typewriter with its keystroke and carriage returns is becoming a decreasingly less familiar sound. How nice it...
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News is boring. We’ll never keep readers awake by just telling what happened. Someone we don’t know was in a car accident. Not a big deal, because we read about...
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Riding a bicycle isn’t always easy, which becomes obvious when we watch Danny MacAskill’s amazing tricks on a mountain bike. The easy part is riding the train. Watch until the...
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A writer’s favorite set of descriptions quickly become overused, becoming cliché. We must challenge ourselves to dig deeply into a character’s emotion and visualize the actions that would make perfect...
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
