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Notes From A Writing Coach: October 2006
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Thursday, October 26, 2006. Pam Nelson has a note on her blog. Lamenting the cave-in by James Kilpatrick on the sloppy use of plural pronouns with singular nouns. Mr. Kilpatrick has given up the fight against using they and their as pronouns for everyone. But Pam Nelson isn’t ready to surrender. She writes: As long as we use a singular verb for "everyone," we should use also a singular pronoun. Wampus Cat Repo...
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Notes From A Writing Coach: January 2007
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Monday, January 15, 2007. Why I've been absent so long. It has been much too long since I posted a note on this blog, and I apologize. I have an excuse. Shortly after Thanksgiving, I had triple-bypass surgery. Believe me, this will put a crimp in your blogging and in everything else. Just skip the whole thing if you can. While I'm here, I'll mention one or two points about language. But sometimes such terms ar...
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Notes From A Writing Coach
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Friday, March 16, 2007. Read for pleasure, not duty. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcuts. I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, mostly fiction. Maybe, but his yearly total is pretty respectable. But sample all sorts of writing. Before dis...
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Notes From A Writing Coach: September 2006
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Wednesday, September 20, 2006. Two excellent books for writers. This is a great month for writers. Out this month: two marvelous books, from two of the country’s most eminent writing coaches, Jack Hart and Roy Peter Clark. I mentioned Mr. Hart’s book, A Writer’s Coach,. In the last column. It deserves more than a mention. Mr. Hart has coached writers for years at The Oregonian. Where’d this one come from?
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Notes From A Writing Coach
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Friday, March 02, 2007. Forging beyond the first draft. A friend sent the first draft of a story and it wasn’t good. My friend tends to beat herself up when the writing doesn’t come easily, but she shouldn’t. It is OK when a first draft fails to be brilliant provided the writer understands that the draft is just the beginning of the work. Revising allows them to:. Nail the theme. At the heart of a good sto...
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Notes From A Writing Coach
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Thursday, February 08, 2007. Never defend bad writing as style. Voice and style matter, but inexperienced writers do best to approach them indirectly, with their attention on other issues. This advice isn’t needed by writers who have mastered their craft. Such writers have the discipline to make conscious decisions about voice and carry them off. Any writer has a voice. The question is whether the voice is...
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Copy editing: It’s taught me a lot, but it has to change | The Buttry Diary
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Steve Buttry, Director of Student Media, LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication. Laquo; Expanding on my aggregation points. Student media need to pursue a digital-first approach. Copy editing: It’s taught me a lot, but it has to change. May 25, 2012 by Steve Buttry. I have a fondness for copy editing and copy editors. I learned more in my copy editing class than in any other course I took at Texas Christian University. As embarrassing as that was, it was so much better than seeing it in print). The c...
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Movie Trivia Night | Friends of Avis Meyer
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Friends of Avis Meyer. Sunday, May 3. Doors open at 6 pm. To help our friend pay legal expenses. Richmond Heights Community Center. Richmond Heights, MO 63117. Avis has created 100 questions, 10 each for 10 movie genres, to challenge even the most avid moviegoers. Joe Holleman, columnist and movie critic of the. Will host the event, which will begin at 6:30 pm. The minimum cost per ticket is $25* . Anything beyond that would be welcomed, but. To let us know that you’re coming. We have a total of 30 table...
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Notes From A Writing Coach
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Thursday, October 26, 2006. Pam Nelson has a note on her blog. Lamenting the cave-in by James Kilpatrick on the sloppy use of plural pronouns with singular nouns. Mr. Kilpatrick has given up the fight against using they and their as pronouns for everyone. But Pam Nelson isn’t ready to surrender. She writes: As long as we use a singular verb for "everyone," we should use also a singular pronoun. Wampus Cat Repo...
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Notes From A Writing Coach: May 2007
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Notes From A Writing Coach. Advice for writers and editors who want to get better at the craft. Friday, May 04, 2007. A journalism teacher recently raised a question on a listserv. He said he had some colleagues who thought it was acceptable to use composite characters and dress up the setting in a story. The minute you make anything up or embellish setting or anything else, you’re writing fiction. Don’t use other people’s writing without giving them credit. Be generous with credit. Taking other ...Stay ...
