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?
Source: www.grammarcheck.net
Craft
The Gerbil Wheel of the Writing Life
A writer spends hours, months, and even years in isolation practicing their art. But it can feel like the gerbil in the cage running on its wheel. They go forward a few steps and back a few steps. They might even get turned upside down only to fall, often without anyone to notice. While there is length to the journey, it doesn’t always seem to be going anywhere. Eventually, their craft …
How to Write a Novel Faster Using Dictation Software With Misty M. Beller
The Apostle Paul didn’t write his letter to the Romans—at least not by sitting down alone with paper and ink. He dictated his ideas to an amanuensis, a scribe or secretary who took dictation in shorthand and later rewrote the letter in full. This explains Paul’s conversational yet intricate writing style. And Paul’s dictation of the book of Romans isn’t some fringe …
Discovery Writing 101: How to Craft Gripping Stories Without an Outline With Steven James
The phrase “driving by the seat of your pants” dates back to the era of steam locomotives. In those days, engineers could sense how the train was handling by feeling the rumble through their seats. Decades later, early aviators adopted the phrase “flying by the seat of their pants” to describe piloting by instinct, rather than relying on instruments. Writers later …
How to Write Your First Novel – an Interview
Thomas Umstattd Jr. interviews Steve Laube Thomas: So, you’re thinking about writing a novel. You’ve tried your hand at writing a few times, but the story just hasn’t come together. Or maybe you wrote and wrote, but you didn’t quite like what you wrote. The method of starting to write and hoping for the best is the hardest way to write a novel. It’s like trying to …
Show *AND* Tell With Angela Hunt
Writers know the rule "Show, don't tell," but is telling always bad? Find out how and when to use both showing and telling in your writing.
How to Write Powerful Christian Stories With Zackary Russell
Discover four laws of Christian storytelling that will ensure your story is good for your readers and portrays the truth of God and humanity.
Faith and Love: Tips for Writing Authentic Christian Romance With Sara Turnquist
The romance genre is one of the top-selling genres in the world. Everyone knows the boy and the girl always get together in the end, but how they get there and what hurdles they have to overcome can make for a riveting story. But for Christian authors, romance can be a touchy subject. How do you write romance books that Christian readers want to read and tell their friends about? I asked Sara …
April Tool’s Day
I decided not to try and trick you on April Fool’s Day with something like “Steve Laube buys yet another shiny industry business. This time he bought the entire out-of-print catalogs from Nomas Telson, Zyndale, and Tondervan. Included in the purchase was the New International Christian Standard Living Message Bible (NICSLMB).” Instead, I thought about which reference book I use …
The First Lines of Your Novel
The opening lines of a novel are like an introduction to the rest of the story. Some have become famous. “It was a dark and stormy night” is the well-known beginning of that struggling novelist Snoopy in the cartoon Peanuts. It is also the first line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Paul Clifford (1830), as well as the first line in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. (L’Engle admitted she …