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: March 2010
Challenge Accepted: Dipping My Toes in the Shallow End
How's that for an unenlightening title for a blog post? Of course, now you want to know what challenge I accepted, but you're probably scoffing at my timidity in only checking out the shallow end (hey, I considered "Trying out the Baby Pool"!). Now that we have that totally uninformative first paragraph out of the way ...
Dashes and Hyphens: The Long and Short of It
If you write much at all, you are probably aware that you have a “favorite” punctuation mark. (By favorite, I don’t necessarily mean “favorite.” I mean favorite in the sense that you may overuse, or even abuse, it.) For some, it’s the ellipsis; for others, the semicolon. (See what I did there?) Some people thrive ...
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 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 writing) and item. So all I need to do ...
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 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 as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) ...
Instrospection on Writing
I’ve had a difficult time this week coming up with blog topics. I looked in my Idea Box, and was greeted with things like “commas,” “dashes and hyphens,” and “transitive and intransitive verbs.” Aren’t you glad you aren’t reading one of those topics right now? So I reached out to one of my writer friends, who said, ...
Weekly Word Count: March 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 as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) ...
National Grammar Day: A Quiz
Believe it or not, today--March 4--is National Grammar Day. To help celebrate this auspicious occasion, and to further grammar education throughout the Internet (always capitalized, incidentally), I have combed through hundreds--maybe even thousands--of blog entries to bring you the following quiz.
O, Canada!
If I weren't an American, I'd want to be a Canadian. I used to think I'd want to be an Aussie, or a Kiwi. But the past fortnight has brought home to me just what wonderful neighbors we have to the north. I've been privileged to count Canadians among my friends for many years; I'm ...
Copyright © 2007 - 2010 by Kestrel's Aerie.
All rights reserved.
Kestrel's Aerie by Stephen B. Hall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at kestrelsaerie@gmail.com.
FTC DISCLAIMER
If you, dear reader, should order any item advertised via an active link on this site by clicking said link, I will eventually receive a barely measurable portion of the proceeds. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, items ordered via links to Amazon.com or Scrivener from Literature & Latte.
Powered by 
and Headway - Banner photograph credit: Grant Erb. Used by permission. | Archives | Admin | Go to Top |