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Weekly Wrap-Up: March 12

March 12, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add [...]

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Instrospection on Writing

March 10, 2010

I’ve had a difficult time this week coming up with blog topics. I looked in my Idea Box, and was greeted with things like “commas,” “dashes and hyphens,” and “transitive and intransitive verbs.” Aren’t you glad you aren’t reading one of those topics right now?
So I reached out to one of my writer friends, who said, “Why don’t [...]

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Weekly Word Count: March 5

March 5, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add [...]

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National Grammar Day: A Quiz

March 4, 2010

Believe it or not, today–March 4–is National Grammar Day. To help celebrate this auspicious occasion, and to further grammar education throughout the Internet (always capitalized, incidentally), I have combed through hundreds–maybe even thousands–of blog entries to bring you the following quiz.

What you are about to see are errors of usage I have collected over the past [...]

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Weekly Word Count: February 26

February 26, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do [...]

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How To Use MS Word to Track Edits and Revisions

February 23, 2010

While flailing about, trying to come up with a post worthy of your time, Tami suggested this topic. I was looking for something quick, easy, and brainless, but the more I thought about it (and exchanged Tweets with Tami), the more the idea grew on me.
If you work with a coauthor, an editor, or simply [...]

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Weekly Word Count: February 12

February 11, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here.
I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add up [...]

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Weekly Word Count: February 5

February 5, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here.
I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add up [...]

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Two-Minute Drill: The Comma Splice

February 4, 2010

For some reason, discussion of comma splices is on the upswing lately. I’ve run across it at least three times in recent weeks; most recently, at Copyediting’s Fiddly Rules Podcast #12.1 Because it’s unlikely you visit the same websites (or subscribe to the same blogs) as I do, I thought I’d give a quick lesson [...]

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Saucy Writing Prompt: Dictionary and Pest

February 3, 2010

Each episode of the Saucy Wenches Podcast includes a two-word writing prompt. These prompts are intended to spur creative writing, by using the prompt words in a short story. I’ve never taken part in the writing exercise, although I’m one of the podcast’s most loyal listeners. (I’ve even been a guest!) However, I’ve resolved to [...]

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