Some writers tell their stories with mostly narrative. Others tell their stories with mostly dialogue. Neither approach is sufficient to show the picture and give readers the experience of being…
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In 2012, The Piano Guys album was ranked number one on the Billboard New Age Albums and Classical Album charts in 2012. Their YouTube channel has millions of subscribers. It…
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Writing instructors often stress the importance of reading the genre you want to write. The more you read, the more you’ll absorb the approach and style that will make you…
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● If you love to read, you might be a writer. ● If you take time to look up words in the dictionary, you might be a writer. ● If…
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Most stories are best written in past tense. Paradoxically, with past tense, readers have a present sense of what has happened and comfortably move forward with what happens next. In…
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After beginning his career as a safety engineer, Justin Wilson (1914–2001) hosted several cooking shows and wrote seven Cajun cookbooks. Wilson’s safety talks and cooking information may have been helpful,…
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Am I my brother’s keeper? Maybe not, but we are responsible for our words. Jesus said, “You can be sure, on Judgment Day, people will have to account for every…
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In ancient times, reading must have been difficult without spaces and punctuation between words. Now we have periods, commas, and colons. There are hyphens, short dashes, and long dashes. To…
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An opening phrase introduces something important about the rest of the sentence, or it wouldn’t be there. We need to be sure it fulfills the purpose for which it was…
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ach morning Frank Ball reads a few comic strips to stir his creative thinking. In just a few frames, many of them tell an interesting story with beginning, middle, and…
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
