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20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong | LitReactor - StumbleUpon

http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes.
Pioneered by Advanced Fiction Writing e-zine publisher and self-proclaimed "mad professor of fiction writing" Randy Ingermanson, the snowflake method is a simple...

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method | eHow.com - StumbleUpon

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The Creative Writing MFA Blog

Yes, it’s summertime, and those application deadlines are still months away. But let’s face it, many of you are already doing your research and making lists of all the programs and due dates in your head. http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/

10 Commandments for a Happy Writer by Nathan Bransford

Writers aren't generally known as the happiest lot. http://backspacewriters.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-commandments-for-happy-writer-by.html

How to Undress a Victorian Lady in Your Next Historical Romance - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576443871615544338.html Romance novelist Deeanne Gist went to extreme lengths to understand her characters-she ordered a full Victorian costume, including underwear. Get underneath her hoop skirt with WSJ's Alexandra Alter. Deeanne Gist stood in a packed hotel conference room wearing nothing but her underwear.