Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
In: Writing Craft
7 Dec 2009We’re professional writers and we all know how to use apostrophes. And that makes it that much more annoying when someone around us does not. Do you have a Facebook friend or a Twitter follower who constantly murders the apostrophe? Send them this and they may not even notice they’re being impatiently corrected.
Just, whatever you [...]
In: Writing Craft
26 Oct 2009…Then maybe you’re just a snob.
Check out this article on Salon.com about class warfare in language and think about your intentions next time you slap someone upside the head for a dangling participle.
In: Writing Craft
24 Aug 2009Freelance writers, what have you done today that you will still remember five years down the road?
I was all set to write an “International ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Writer’ Week” post yesterday. The post was going to be all about slow payment and how we constantly have to fight just to see our paychecks and blah blah. But then I received some bad news that someone I know who [...]
In: Freelance Writing| Freelance Writing Questions| Writing Craft
20 Jul 2009Do you have any weird writing process quirks of foibles? I recently identified one of mine. It’s something I’ve been doing since high school, but hadn’t actually given much thought until recently. I generally write a whole article, brochure, paper, or whatnot but then need some time and distance before bringing myself to write the [...]
I like to say, “yes.” I like to give encouragement, advice, and even the occasional bracing hug. (But only if I know you really well, so don’t get any ideas.) I also intend this blog for beginning freelance writers, baby birds with your beaks open, chirping away for small, slimy worms of wisdom to sustain [...]
In: Writing Craft
9 Apr 2009Today I’m feeling quite appreciative of William Strunk and E.B. White and their writer’s bible, The Elements of Style.
I love this book so much that I’ve memorized a whole chapter, which is helpful, because I don’t have the book in front of me right now. So here goes with Rule 13:
“Omit needless words.”
Yes, that was [...]
In: Writing Craft
5 Feb 2009As freelance writers, or one might even go so far as to claim, a wordsmiths, I think it’s important to have many words to work with, don’t you? But what you might not know is that many of our beloved words are in danger! Yes, it’s true. Every year lexicographers analyze the English language and [...]
In: Ethics| Writing Craft
15 Jan 2009In last week’s New Yorker, Jill Lepore had an article called “The Speech.” While the article was mostly about how the majority of inaugural addresses suck aren’t very memorable, she touched on something called the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test. You may have seen this sucker floating around on the ‘net at one time or another, but to [...]
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