A Camping Trip is Being Gone on by Me

In a rush as I head out for a little weekend camping trip, I’m afraid I’m phoning in this week’s…

NaBloWriYe

National Novel Writing Month (affectionately shortened to NaNoWriMo) made an appearance on the WordPress.com blog recently in conjunction with an invitation…

10 Tricks to Motivate Yourself to Write – Right Now | Courage 2 Create

A writer’s love of writing does motivate us in the long-term, yes. But the dirty little secret is that sometimes…

The challenge is 75% complete! Ready for National Novel Writing Month?

Congratulations on making it to month ten of the challenge! Now that October is here, the end of Post a…

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Quick, what’s the past tense of the verb “to blog”? Why, it’s “blogged,” of course. A great many of the…

The Dramatic Monologue

Did you ever read a blog post by someone that turned out to be unintentionally telling about the person’s character?…

Does Grammar Matter?

My post of last week on the proper use of “me,” “myself,” and “I” was my most popular to date…

Me, Myself, and I

In 1997, singer Paula Cole released a song entitled “I Don’t Want to Wait” that featured this jim-dandy of a…

Suggest a way for the government to get rid of foreclosed properties

Today’s prompt was inspired by a Bloomberg Businessweek article on msnbc.com, Uncle Sam is a reluctant landlord of foreclosed homes, written by Lorraine…

Omit Needless Words That Serve No Purpose

When in high school, I had an English teacher who made us copy out by hand the guidelines from Strunk…

Post a Day/Week Challenge: 8 Months Down, 4 To Go!

So, Post a Day and Post a Week participants, how are you and your blog doing? Regardless of whether or…

Blogging Voice: A Contrived and Shambling Hybrid?

I ran across a little essay by Maude Newton this week confronting the journalistic voice of one of my favorite…