Gracee never has enough paper. I find remnants of stories and song lyrics all over my house. She loves pens and colored pencils and markers and notebooks. She likes to give me writing advice. She’s very creative. And, yes, I’m prejudiced. She’s my granddaughter! We conducted this interview over a meal of Big Boy spaghetti. […]
Gracee–Gold Star Young Author
Some months back, I shared some of my granddaughter’s writing tips. She revised her work at school. I thought you might like to see the final product–in her own words with phonetic spelling. Coming up: A one-word/one-line interview with this young author. P.S. Gracee’s mom did have an infection in an ear, and her […]
Common Errors in English Usage
Which is correct? Quick! Awhile or a while? Lay or lie? Peel out or peal out? When would you use the phrase, “Money is no option?” Or the phrase, “Little to none?” How do you pronounce, “mauve?” Find the answers at Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English. I’ve always just called the site “Brians’ Errors.” […]
One Site/One Thousand Dictionaries
My favorite dictionary search site is OneLook®. In fact, it’s the only place I go. For lots of reasons. As of this moment they’ve indexed 18,373,069 words in 1052 dictionaries. That’s a lot of words. That’s a lot of dictionaries. The number might include other references, too. I think those numbers must change frequently. Like […]
Need to Build a Plot?
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” ~Willa Cather I can’t tell you how to build a plot, but these authors can and do. I’ve got so much to learn! Seems like everyone knows about Plot & Structure by […]
A Reason to Read–in One Word
I asked the other day about summing up your message in one word as a writer. So that got me thinking about why we pick up a book to read. What do we look for? What do we want in the end? What message do we want to come away with? Is it the same […]
Your Message in One Word
What’s your message? What’s the one thing you want to convey through your writing? Or at least the major thing. To focus on. Could you put it in just one word? I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I thought I wanted to get people excited about the Word. See things they’d never seen before. […]
Jennifer Hudson Taylor: One-Word/One-Line Interview
Jennifer Hudson Taylor writes historical and contemporary Christian fiction set in Europe and the Carolinas. Her debut novel, Highland Blessings, released this month, and the music on her video trailer (below) really gets to me. You can order a copy from Amazon and even a signed copy direct from the author here! How can you […]
Candace Calvert: One-Word/One-Line Interview
It’s National Nurses Week (May 6-12), and so I’ve invited one of my favorite nurses, who shares a first name with my favorite–and only–sister, to visit The Write Pursuit. Candace Calvert writes medical fiction where she offers healthy doses of drama, romance, humor, and hope. She’s lived it. She shares it. And if you’re a […]
This Writing Thing – A Ramble
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~John Steinbeck I can see Gracee and the neighbor girl outside. Gracee writes something with her finger in the wet sand while Jackie sits in the “castle” with dolls. Lost in an imaginary world. Nothing […]
