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Welcome to Writing Tip Tuesday, the Bullet Points edition. This is the ninth in a series of posts pulled from my free guide "On Not Writing Badly." You can download the whole thing by filling out this form, or, if you'd rather not subscribe to my … [Continue reading] about Writing Tip Tuesday: Bullet Points
I was doing some freelance work a while back, working with a small marketing team, and I was lamenting the prevalence of double spaces after periods. It's a pet peeve of mine. The woman I was working with, who was about fifteen years younger than me, … [Continue reading] about Tidying Up Those Double Spaces in Your Manuscript
As members of the weasel family, California sea otters can walk, but they prefer to spend their lives in the water, sleeping, frolicking and continually stuffing their faces. Sea otters eat a quarter of their body weight every day, diving up to … [Continue reading] about California Sea Otters
I love reading about tricks that business moguls use to hone their skills and build their empires. I find, over and over, that a surprising number of the ideas in business books can be easily applied to a writing career. Even though I have no desire … [Continue reading] about The 25/5 Rule
Welcome to Writing Tip Tuesday, the Colons & Semicolons edition. This is the eighth in a series of posts pulled from my free guide "On Not Writing Badly." You can download the whole thing by filling out this form, or, if you'd rather not … [Continue reading] about Writing Tip Tuesday: Colons & Semicolons
First thing's first, click the Comments & Footnotes icon in your Inspector window: Add A Comment In your manuscript, when you want to make a note, simply highlight the text you want to attach the note to, then click the smaller little … [Continue reading] about Comments & Footnotes in Scrivener
In the far northeast corner of California the terrain takes on an otherworldly appearance. Tall cinder cones and deep craters mark the land. Underfoot, hundreds of tunnels wind through the earth providing temperate and moist microclimates for local … [Continue reading] about Lava Beds of California