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10 Great Writing Tips for Fiction Writers

10 Great Writing Tips for Fiction Writers

April 17, 2024April 17, 2024

Fiction writers, when in the throes of creativity and busily working away on their story, don’t want to interrupt “the…

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What Writers Need to Master Their Craft

What Writers Need to Master Their Craft

July 11, 2022February 6, 2024

Many people want to write a great book, but they don’t want to get into the weeds with grammar, punctuation,…

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Grammar Mistakes Are Funny … When They Aren’t Yours

Grammar Mistakes Are Funny … When They Aren’t Yours

January 21, 2019February 6, 2024

Grammar mistakes make you laugh . . . except when someone points one out in your novel. We see them…

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Personal Shifts

Personal Shifts

December 25, 2015February 6, 2024

Sadly, this is my last post for Say What? I’ve run this section on Live Write Thrive for four years…

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When You’re (Missing) a Word in a Comparison

When You’re (Missing) a Word in a Comparison

December 18, 2015February 6, 2024

Writers sometimes leave out small necessary words when making comparisons. Sometimes sentences look just fine to our eyes at first…

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More or Less

More or Less

December 11, 2015February 6, 2024

Who would imagine a little word like less could be less than simple to use correctly? As an adjective, less…

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Inflammatory Distinctions

Inflammatory Distinctions

December 4, 2015February 6, 2024

Logic would tell us that flammable might be the opposite of inflammable. But we all know the English language is…

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We Have Mutual, Common, and Reciprocal Interests

We Have Mutual, Common, and Reciprocal Interests

November 27, 2015February 6, 2024

What we have in common, we share mutually. Some purists argue that mutual means something experienced or expressed by two…

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Moral and Ethical Ethics 

Moral and Ethical Ethics 

November 20, 2015February 6, 2024

We often hear the words ethics and morals used interchangeably or paired as if either meaning the same thing or…

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