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grammar lesson online - verbs and adverbs
1 week ago September 18, 2017September 18, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Grammar Shorts: Troublesome Pairs

Grammar lessons online
September 1, 2017September 1, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Grammar Shorts: Make Your Writing Better Using These 3 Suggestions

May 22, 2017September 8, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Grammar Shorts: Acronyms and Their Proper Usage

March 20, 2017September 8, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

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

16 mins ago September 25, 2017September 25, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Bloggers: You’ll Catch a Cold Before Your Post Goes Viral

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2 days ago September 23, 2017September 23, 2017S.W. Biddulph

The Poll Has Spoken

1 week ago September 15, 2017September 15, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Your Thoughts About Fiction

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September 11, 2017September 11, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Two Drops of Ink News

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August 30, 2017August 30, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Two Drops of Ink featured as a ‘Top Writing Blog’

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017S.W. Biddulph

What is Writing Success?

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

Authors: Book Promote Like A Pro!

inpiration to write
August 22, 2017August 22, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Finding Inspiration

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Promises

August 9, 2017August 12, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Hardwired to Connect, or Triggered in Childhood?

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Neil Leadbeater Interviews Dutch Poet Albert Hagenaars

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Figuring It Out: Using Rhetorical Devices in Your Writing

August 1, 2017August 1, 2017S.W. Biddulph

The Reporter Life: Writing a Letter to the Editor

July 27, 2017September 3, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Memoir: The Perfect Imperfection

July 24, 2017September 3, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Jayne Bodell

July 20, 2017July 20, 2017S.W. Biddulph

FIGHT OFF LAZY LANGUAGE: WATCH TV

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Writing Advice: Facing Your Fears

July 14, 2017July 14, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Memoir: Summer Storms

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Letting the Muse Take Over

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017S.W. Biddulph

Writing Challenge: Snippets as Writing Prompts

July 7, 2017September 8, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

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

The Sunday Spotlight on Two Drops of Ink
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, 2017September 8, 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, 2017August 25, 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, 2017September 8, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

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, 2016September 21, 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, 2016September 20, 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, 2016August 18, 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, 2016September 21, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

But, Have YOU Said It? A Writing Challenge

May 10, 2016September 13, 2017Marilyn L. Davis

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

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