Category: Meet the Editor

This month we’re going to tackle a few die-hard grammar questions in what I like to consider a grammar expose. This should be an exciting month, right? So let’s make it exciting. Here’s an issue that should probably have been laid to rest decades ago, but it does still crop… Read more“Grammar Expose: Third-Person Singular Pronoun”

I’ve got a logger out there felling big trees around my meadow today—zzzzz, BOOM, instant sunshine!—so I’m just popping in very quickly to let you all know that I heard from Writer’s Digest this morning that my blog has been judged one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers 2013…. Read more“Writer’s Digest:<br>101 Best Websites for Writers”

If you follow me on Twitter, you know I’ve been on posting cartoons for my up-coming webinar through Writer’s Digest: 3 Secrets of the Greats: Structure Your Story for Ultimate Reader Addiction. And now the Big Week has finally arrived. Halleluah! So I’ll tell you a little story about that…. Read more“3 Secrets of the Greats: Structure”

Please: have a balloon! In case you weren’t around for the excitement on Twitter last week and are right now sitting there scratching your head and wondering, “What? A Balloon Order of Knights? What could that possibly be about?” I’ll sum it up for you here— Over 400 500 RTs… Read more“Happy April Fool’s Day”

MY ANNUAL RANT I was looking all over for my post on Showing Vs Telling last November, and I finally found that darn thing. In it, I explain the differences in the quality of fiction by way of the metaphor of a barrel (or a keg, if you will—my husband… Read more“The 2 Non-Artistic Professions Running<br>the Artistic World of Modern Fiction”

I will watch the world every day with the eyes of a fly. I’m assuming you know what flies’ eyes look like. But in case you don’t, think of disco balls with independent locomotion. You, personally, are walking through this incredibly vivid, visual, aural, tactile universe all day long every… Read more“11 New Year’s Resolutions for 2013”

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone, on one of the most historic years in our lives! We’ve all been through a lot. So I’ve dedicated this month this year to less specific concerns about writing and more ephemeral, personal concerns: finding joy and fulfillment through writing, finding gratitude through writing, finding… Read more“How to Find the Meaning of Life through Writing”

We’re talking about the meaning of life and all that good stuff this month, and today we’re going to talk about how we find community through writing. It’s not only about the words. It’s not only about the readers. It’s about all of us. . .being writers together. [I KNOW:… Read more“How to Find Community Through Writing”

Are you grateful for your life? I am. Are you grateful for just being alive? I am. How does writing help me find that gratitude? I’ll tell you a secret: it’s whole the reason I do it. Gratitude. Because we only get this one mortal coil. And we writers know… Read more“How to Find Gratitude Through Writing”

Joy! Fulfillment! Hurrah! I know as well as you do how exhausted you are by this time of year. I’m exhausted too. All that writing, all that thinking about our characters and our stories and our language and our readers. All that working, all that struggling. All that living. Why… Read more“How to Find Joy & Fulfillment Through Writing”