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Grammar Tips for the Average Joe (or Jo-Ann) Okay, so as an editor, I admittedly deal with grammar more than the average Joe (or Jo-Ann).

Grammar Tips for the Average Joe (or Jo-Ann)

In fact, when my Hillary (now 14) was in first grade, I rode on a school bus with her class as a field trip chaperone. (Yes, I rode on a bus with 75 first graders–without a sedative, which is pretty much the equivalent of childbirth without an epidural. I did that, too.) Anyway, enroute I overheard the following conversation between Hillary and a classmate: Little Boy:”Hey, Hillary, what does your mom do for a job?” Hillary: “She corrects people’s spelling.” It was humbling, to say the least. Most people’s livelihood doesn’t depend on knowing how to spell properly or knowing how to conjugate verbs. That’s because bad grammar can make you look, well, bad. I’ve been doing some playing around with different topics on my blog, Facebook, and Twitter, just to get a feel for what kinds of things people seem to respond to and be interested in.

10 Tips for Writing. 1.

10 Tips for Writing

Don’t write linearly: Don’t set out to write something from beginning to end. A story is meant to be read from front to back, but not necessarily created that way. If you have an idea for writing the sixth chapter first, then start there. The epilogue can even be the first thing you put down on paper, then work your way back. Scattered chapters will eventually be filled in, and it will force you to look at the story from different angles, which may present different ideas or new approaches. GIVEAWAY: J. Column by J. 2. 3. (Should you mention self-published books when querying an agent?) 4. 5. Want to build your visibility and sell more books?

13 Writing Tips. Twenty years ago, a friend and I walked around downtown Portland at Christmas.

13 Writing Tips

The big department stores: Meier and Frank… Fredrick and Nelson… Nordstroms… their big display windows each held a simple, pretty scene: a mannequin wearing clothes or a perfume bottle sitting in fake snow. But the windows at the J.J. Newberry's store, damn, they were crammed with dolls and tinsel and spatulas and screwdriver sets and pillows, vacuum cleaners, plastic hangers, gerbils, silk flowers, candy - you get the point.

Each of the hundreds of different objects was priced with a faded circle of red cardboard. And walking past, my friend, Laurie, took a long look and said, "Their window-dressing philosophy must be: 'If the window doesn't look quite right - put more in'. " Essay Writing. Writing Advice.