What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, ...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
How To Use MS Word to Track Edits and Revisions
While flailing about, trying to come up with a post worthy of your time, Tami suggested this topic. I was looking for something quick, easy, and brainless, but the more I thought about it (and exchanged Tweets with Tami), the more the idea grew on me. If you work with a coauthor, ...
Weekly Word Count: February 19
What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative ...
Walt Disney World Follow-Up
This post started as a reply to comments on the preceding article, but I figured, why not make it a post in its own right? So here it is... It's been a great week, and Alison has been an absolute angel the entire time. Today, she and her parents woke early (after she slept ...
Weekly Word Count: February 12
What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals
Weekly Word Count: February 5
What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals
Two-Minute Drill: The Comma Splice
For some reason, discussion of comma splices is on the upswing lately. I've run across it at least three times in recent weeks; most recently, at Copyediting's Fiddly Rules Podcast #12.[1. Except when I went to listen to the podcast, the link took me to ...
The Dictionary
Each episode of the Saucy Wenches Podcast includes a two-word writing prompt. These prompts are intended to spur creative writing, by using the prompt words in a short story. I’ve never taken part in the writing exercise, although I’m one of the podcast’s most loyal listeners. (I’ve even ...
A Pro and Con View of Language
I was talking with a friend on Saturday, and our discussion caused my thoughts to spin off on a totally unrelated tangent (although I eventually brought it back to a point we were discussing). I asked, “Do you know why I love words so much?” And suddenly that started me off on a dissertation I ...
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