Ever read something, say a post on a forum for writers, and been shocked at the bad grammar and lack of sentence structure? I am. A lot more than I should be. If you want to write, you need to know how words work. You need to know how grammar works. That “txt” speak doesn’t … Continue reading Badly Writing
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Weird Colors
I have a peeve when it comes to colors. When you're giving something a color, whether it be eyes, hair, skin, carpet, pants - don't get weird with words. When I say 'weird' I mean don't give weird colors to things. If Sally's got dark brown hair, then say she's got dark brown hair, not carob, … Continue reading Weird Colors
A Note on Persistence and Optimism
This past February, I lost a self-published adult fiction contest. There were only sixty-six entries, and Devil's Blood didn't even make it into the top twenty. Want to know how I felt? Awful. Dreadful. Worthless. A failure. Hopeless. Like a old sack of potatoes not good enough for anything but the garbage dump. It took … Continue reading A Note on Persistence and Optimism
Beatrice B. Morgan 