Peek or Peak

Wow, why does this always get me? I really have to think about which one I’m supposed to be using.
What about you? Do you have a quirky word? What is it?
My curiosity is peeked…or is it peaked???

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Tags: grammar, word usage, Writing

One lump or two?

Yeah, right. I’m not talking about sugar in coffee.
I am talking about how many spaces should follow a period at the end of a sentence.

There appears to be this great big misconception that it’s two spaces after a period.
It used to be two spaces.
It changed.

Tags: Formatting, Style, Writing

Like watching a movie

I love dialogue. Love, love, love.
If I go back to all my old favorites, Arsenic and Old Lace…Abbott and Costello, Breakfast at Tiffany’s…. Bringing up Baby. I could go on. The thing about those old movies is that they would have collapsed without good dialogue.  The time when movies were based on really good writing.
We’ve [...]

Tags: dialogue, Movie lines, Writing

Easy or Hard?

Why is it that some manuscripts hop along at a fast pace, stopping to smell the daisies at times, and other manuscripts fall into the pond and sink to the bottom?
Is it a better understanding of the characters, the plot, all of the above? Could it be the voice and/or genre?
My current ms is a [...]

Tags: GMC, heroine, Jennifer Bianco, pace, sarcasm, snark, Writing, YA

Smelling Those Virtual Roses

Learning the craft, I’ve spent so many hours focused on fine-tuning the areas I’m weak in, such as description and emotions. Hours upon hours I’d write then edit and go over every word, every minute detail. I’d layer in physical descriptions, the five senses, emotions, worrying over every choice.
My conversations with other writers were heavily [...]

Tags: characters, description, dialogue, emotions, Jennifer Bianco, Pacing, plotting, roses, Writing

How do you write?

Admission: I cannot write with a pen or a pencil.
Gasp.
I imagine plenty of people can curl up with a brand new note pad and the perfect pen and write for hours – I on the otherhand get finger cramps and brain farts within minutes.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I love the click of the [...]

Tags: Pen, Pencil or Keyboard, Writing

Being a Writer

Just do it…
I’m sitting at my computer right now.
A Saturday afternoon, after a week of seemingly no work. Realistically, very little. Is it spring fever? Could be, but the real question is, is it my spring fever? I don’t think so.
Am I tempted to be outside? Yes.
Am I tempted to be doing other things besides [...]

Tags: laptops, spring fever, Writing