I was looking at summer camps this morning, Squiders, and one was touting that its 2018 schedule was now up, and in my head I was like, “Why so far in the future?” I have now remembered what year it
Common Writing Mistakes: Starting in the Wrong Place
Trucking right along, squiders. (As an aside, Pinterest now allows you to create sub-boards, so I spent a lot of yesterday organizing my most problematic board, unhelpfully called “Your Pinterest Likes” and left over from when you could like pins.
Common Writing Mistakes: Pacing and Plot Flow
Back to it, squiders! Also, a reminder that we’ll discuss Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead next Thursday, if you’re planning on reading that along with me. (Have you been reading it? Once again we have a future where all the scientists
A Look Back at 2017 and Thoughts on 2018
While I am not particularly one for resolutions, Squiders, I do find it helps to take a look at what one accomplished in the previous year and make vague plans moving forward. Here’s what I did, writing-wise, in 2017: I
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 2)
Sorry it’s a bit late, squiders! Also, I haven’t started wrapping Christmas presents yet and aaaaaahhhhhhhh So, last week we talked about common issues with Point of View, and today we’re going to be looking at a specific, sneaky issue
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 1)
Happy Thursday, squiders! I’m doing #SFFPit over on Twitter today, so if you follow me there I apologize for the amount of pitch tweets you may or may not be seeing. Before we get going, I just want to talk
Common Writing Mistakes: Tenses and Passive Voice
Hi, squiders! Today we’re going to talk about tenses and passive voice, since they tend to be related, and because this is a good segue from our grammatical issues into our storytelling issues. Tense in this case refers to the form
Common Writing Problems: Dependent Clauses
Good morning, Squiders! I think this will be the last of the bad grammar sections we do before we move onto different storytelling elements. To start off with, let’s review what a dependent clause is. A clause, according to Google’s
Common Writing Mistakes: Pronoun Confusion
Full confession, Squiders–this is something I had problems with for a LONG time. (Doing this today because I make no guarantees about Thursday.) What is pronoun confusion? Well, take a look at this example: Doug and Larry decide to go
Common Writing Mistakes: Speech Tags
Happy Friday, squiders! Today we’re going to continue on with our series on common writing mistakes. We’re still in our first section, which is basic grammar/bad writing issues. Today, we’re going to discuss speech tags. Just to be absolutely clear,
