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May 22, 2017May 22, 2017Lydia

Grammar Shorts: Acronyms and Their Proper Usage

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017Lydia

Grammar Shorts: ‘The Proper Use of Italics and Over-Emphasizing’

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Grammar Shorts: Comma Conundrums

February 18, 2016February 21, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Grammar Shorts: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015S.W. Biddulph

Great Grammar Tips Flipboard magazine

February 6, 2015November 22, 2015S.W. Biddulph

Grammar shorts: If your sentence is a mess check the verb and rebuild

July 8, 2014June 11, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Grammar Shorts: Verbs and their sentence structures

June 17, 2014June 17, 2014S.W. Biddulph

Editing is much more than grammar | LinkedIn

January 10, 2014January 10, 2014S.W. Biddulph

Grammar trolls

2 days ago July 20, 2017July 20, 2017S.W. Biddulph

FIGHT OFF LAZY LANGUAGE: WATCH TV

5 days ago July 17, 2017July 17, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Writing Advice: Facing Your Fears

1 week ago July 14, 2017July 14, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Memoir: Summer Storms

1 week ago July 12, 2017July 12, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Letting the Muse Take Over

2 weeks ago July 10, 2017July 10, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Writing Challenge: Snippets as Writing Prompts

July 7, 2017July 7, 2017Lydia

Successful Blogging: Hiring A Social Media Manager

June 28, 2017June 30, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Finding New Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

June 23, 2017June 23, 2017S.W. Biddulph

BAD WRITING? FIX IT!

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Warning! Writing May Be Habit-Forming

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Our Reader Poll Results

June 18, 2017June 18, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Sunday Spotlight: Jayne Bodell

June 17, 2017June 17, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Reader Poll

June 16, 2017June 16, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Hearing Voices?

June 13, 2017June 13, 2017S.W. Biddulph

To Our Readers

June 9, 2017June 9, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

How Your Well-meaning Ego Kills Dreams

May 31, 2017June 1, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Hump Day Humor: Ego Illumination

May 30, 2017May 30, 2017S.W. Biddulph

How to Stay Resilient When Facing Rejection

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017S.W. Biddulph

HOW TO CONQUER WRITER’S BLOCK

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017S.W. Biddulph

DESERVE YOUR WRITING DREAM?

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Hump Day Humor: I’m Giving Up the Hook – My Readers Aren’t Fish

May 16, 2017May 16, 2017S.W. Biddulph

How to be Content in the Mundane

May 8, 2017May 8, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Will the Real Writer Please Step Forward?

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017S.W. Biddulph

THREE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE KILLING YOUR NOVEL

May 3, 2017May 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Hump Day Humor: ‘The Dark Side of Writing’

May 2, 2017May 2, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Living a Golden Era? Are you a Serious Writer?

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Two Drops of Ink: Your Other Library

April 13, 2017April 13, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Do You Want to Prevent Predictable Plots?

Igniting the Inquisitive Reader
April 11, 2017April 11, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Igniting the Inquisitive Reader

March 29, 2017May 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Hump Day Humor: ‘Most Hated Phrases’

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017S.W. Biddulph

To Coin a Phrase: Here we grow again, so we’re movng!

March 22, 2017May 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Hump Day Humor: ‘You know your blog is a success when you have a stalker’

March 17, 2017June 26, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Are You Using Relationships and Links to Increase Traffic?

March 12, 2017March 21, 2017S.W. Biddulph

From the Editor: A few thoughts and announcements

March 10, 2017March 10, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Tell Me Your Why

March 7, 2017March 7, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Write Your Story: Even if you’re not the Best Writer

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017michellegunnin

Right Word? Too Many? What Do I Mean?

February 28, 2017February 28, 2017Lydia

Overcoming the Obstacles of Writing

February 24, 2017February 24, 2017michellegunnin

How Strong is Your Skeleton?

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Literary Agent News

January 28, 2017January 28, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Online Writing Opportunities: New ways to build your brand, gain exposure, and get published

January 23, 2017June 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Taglines Tell ’em Who You Are

December 30, 2016March 26, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

2017: Join the Collaboration at Two Drops of Ink

December 1, 2016June 14, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Writing Fears: Procrastinating or Penalizing the Readers?

November 3, 2016June 26, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

What’s Bogging Down Your Blog?

October 11, 2016October 12, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Writer’s Limbo: Caught between the Muses

September 20, 2016April 22, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

It’s Your Voice: Edit out the Twain and Shakespeare

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016S.W. Biddulph

A note from the Editor

August 17, 2016February 6, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Voice: Have You Found Yours? Is Mine There, Too?

July 15, 2016December 17, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Five Ways to Become a Kind Writer

July 5, 2016January 15, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Three steps to successful writing and publication

June 30, 2016July 15, 2016S.W. Biddulph

The Power of Words

June 26, 2016June 23, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

But, Have YOU Said It? A Writing Challenge

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016Lydia

Effective Writing: Tips and Techniques to Gain Readers

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Foraying into Online Fiction writing: Tips for part-time writers

April 3, 2016November 21, 2016Marilyn L. Davis

What if You Don’t Read This? OMG, What If You Do?

March 15, 2016April 11, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Role Play Writing: What to do when you live in the middle of nowhere, and you want to improve your writing

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016S.W. Biddulph

A Note From the Editor

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Why should I blog?

February 23, 2016May 21, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Facebook

January 29, 2016July 31, 2016S.W. Biddulph

The Etiquette of Editors

January 18, 2016July 11, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Published Contributors

January 13, 2016June 8, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Passionate Writing: It’s Not Just Steamy Romance

December 30, 2015January 1, 2016S.W. Biddulph

Are you really an editor?

December 22, 2015June 27, 2017S.W. Biddulph

I feel like a fern at the bottom of the Redwood Forest

November 9, 2015July 18, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Submissions

October 2, 2015June 7, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Gotta Love a List: 12 Tips

September 23, 2015July 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

4 Ways to Update Your Older Posts

September 20, 2015July 2, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

How to Brainstorm by Yourself for a Better Blog

September 19, 2015July 4, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

What’s Your Writing Process? Planned Piece or Prompt?

September 17, 2015November 16, 2015S.W. Biddulph

Sentence structures: Simple, Compound, and Complex

September 16, 2015July 4, 2016S.W. Biddulph

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