Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Below is a great infographic detailing some weak words and how to fix them.
Do you agree with this exercise or not? Do you have anything you can add to it?
Years ago I had to strike the word “very” from an author’s manuscript because it had been used far too many times. In a very funny email the author replied with the word “very” typed over 500 times. The author said they were trying to get the word out of their system so it would not appear in their next book!
Source: www.grammarcheck.net
Enjoy this Thanksgiving song with a melody that will be implanted in your mind for the rest of the day! You are welcome.
Earlier this week the TED-Ed site released a good four minute animated video narrated by Nalo Hopkinson on writing great fiction. Once you are done watching you can take a short quiz and even go deeper on the Ted-Ed site (click here for the quiz). Enjoy
I love the game of basketball. The Harlem Globetrotters have been entertaining audiences for the last 89 years with their incredible skills. This five minute video shows individual team members setting seven new Guinness World Records last week in one afternoon on November 12th in Phoenix. Go ahead…try any one of these at home and see how hard it is. (By the way, the second record in the …
There seems to be something in my eye. Maybe watching this story will explain:
I like reading lists of great books in hopes of discovering one I had missed or had not considered reading before. About ten days ago Josh Katzowitz had an article on Newmax listing the top ten most popular Christian novels of all time. Click through to see his comments on each title. Below are his top ten: A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle Christy – Catherine Marshall The End of the Affair – …
In celebration of the birth of our first grandchild last week (Caleb!) I bring you a YouTube favorite: “Puppies and a Baby!” The combination should bring a smile to your face.
This was a great question that came our way: Although I have been cultivating my online presence as a writer, I have found that someone who shares my name already has a significant online presence. This person does not live a Christian lifestyle: in fact, I would be terribly embarrassed and my professional integrity could be harmed if anyone mistook me for this individual. Perhaps other authors …
Dressing up your poor dog and taking a photo? Priceless. (No that is not our dog. We have a cat. But on Halloween we tell people she is a dog in disguise.)
This past Thursday the Barna Group released the results of their survey called “The State of Books and Reading in a Digital World.” Feel free to click through to read the report yourself. Meanwhile there are a few observations of my own. Confirms What We Already Know About Gender For the entire 34 years I’ve been in the book industry we’ve concluded that women buy more books than men. The survey …
