Every day, Patricia gave thanks for the Internet because it saved so much research time. She used to spend all day in the library, looking through countless books, and still...
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Back when the English language had a limited vocabulary, Shakespeare is thought to have created thousands of words. After Robert Heinlein created grok as a Martian word in his novel...
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Tom already had two pressing deadlines. The odds weren’t good for finishing them before he was sent a book manuscript to edit. He felt like a sailboat moving into a...
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If Roddy took the easy route, he would simply narrate his story, telling what happened to Joseph. That meant readers would assume a distant position, like watching a tragedy on...
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Bob was a building contractor, not a writer, so when he began his novel, he just started writing from the beginning, assuming everything would come out well at the end....
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On his morning walk in the park, Frank Ball stopped to talk to a university professor visiting from Indiana. Discussion about the beautiful crisp morning and rabbits playing in the...
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An apocryphal story tells how Winston Churchill in the World War II era was reprimanded by someone for ending a sentence with a preposition. Back then, we were sticklers for...
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Suzanne had to decide what perspective she would use in telling her story. She could be the reporter, exercising a God-like position by telling what happened. She began to write:...
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Mom paused to admire the photos placed neatly in her scrapbook. Each one brought back memories and told an important story. Johnny on his bike—he had learned it was okay...
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Suzanne wanted others to share her victory, but she couldn’t find the right words. Other writers seemed always to say it much better. Thinking she was doing her audience a...
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
