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July 2016 Writing Prompt

NewsJuly 26, 2016421Views0Likes1Comment
My friend Cory alerted me to an article in the Wall Street Journal I found intriguing. A newspaperman for more than fifty years in Haverhill, Massachusetts, wrote what he called “probably the most important story of my life.” His obituary. Now, seventy-five-year-old Tom Vartabedian urges other people to not “leave it to chance” and have…

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Editing Tip for July 2016

NewsJuly 26, 2016356Views0Likes0Comments
Our English language is full of words that sound the same but have different meanings, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings, and just to confuse us even more, words that sound and are spelled the same but serve distinctly different purposes. Oh my! My heart goes out to people learning English…

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Daily Writing Tips on YouTube

NewsJuly 26, 2016374Views0Likes0Comments
You often hear me refer to DailyWritingTips.com as one of the best websites for accurate information on grammar, punctuation, spelling, usage, and vocabulary for starters. Now, you can watch the tips as well as read them. Within the last two weeks, Daily Writing Tips launched a YouTube channel with its first three videos—Among vs. Amongst, Affect…

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Mentors That Matter

NewsJuly 26, 2016348Views0Likes0Comments
Did you enjoy the good fortune of having a female mentor, role model, coach, teacher, or someone who impacted your life in a significant way? If you did, a new publishing company wants to hear from you. My friend and colleague, cj Madigan, shared this call for submissions for “The Mentor that Matters,” an anthology of…

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Book Review for July 2016

NewsJuly 26, 2016581Views0Likes0Comments
Since I've already mentioned a WWII naval officer and this newsletter focuses on taking time to reflect on the details of one's life, Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author seemed like an appropriate book to choose for this month's book review. In this memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk reveals how he wove the details from his…

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Writing Detail and Description

NewsJuly 26, 2016373Views0Likes0Comments
The easiest way to improve your writing tenfold rests in using detail and description. No problem, you say. I’ll just throw in a few extra adjectives and adverbs. Well, that’s one way, but it’s not the best way to make your stories more vivid. Writing detail and description involves incorporating all our senses, not just sight,…

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From Bootcamp to Normandy

NewsJuly 25, 2016778Views0Likes5Comments
Congratulations to ninety-six-year-old Bob von der Osten for writing the story of his military experience during World War II. Bob kept journals of his boot camp, training, ship-time, liberty, and war-time experiences after joining the United States Navy in January 1942. He supplemented these entries with additional material and memories to turn his journal into…

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Dimestore

NewsJuly 1, 2016653Views0Likes0Comments
The latest Writing Your Life program, Writing People and Places has me focused on, well, people and places. I haven't read Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith yet, but it looks like it might fit this month's focus on writing vividly about the people and places that live in our memories. Lee Smith is best known…

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Margie Did It!

NewsJuly 1, 2016494Views0Likes1Comment
Congratulations to Margie Carter Woods of Pass Christian, Mississippi! She finished her memoir, Welcome to My World: Won’t You Come On In, and now, her family members are planning a big party to celebrate her success. For many, sometimes long, months, Margie wrote, edited, and rewrote stories of growing up in Florida, living in exotic places…

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Writing Detail and Description

NewsJuly 1, 20160Views0Likes0Comments
Next up in the See It Through! series of coaching programs is Writing Detail and Description, and you won’t want to miss this one. Making your text more specific and sensual is, hands down, the easiest way to improve your writing, and once you know a systematic way of doing it, you’ll light your…

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