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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.

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/04/26/25-things-every-writer-should-know/

25 Things Every Writer Should Know

An alternate title for this post might be, “Things I Think About Writing,” which is to say, these are random snidbits (snippets + tidbits) of beliefs I hold about what it takes to be a writer.
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I’ve seen a meme bouncing around that reveals reasons why you shouldn’t ever date a writer . http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2010/10/12/beware-of-writer/

Beware Of Writer

Book Ideas for Young Writers | Goins, Writer

You’re just getting started as a writer. Or you’ve been doing it your whole life. http://goinswriter.com/book-ideas-for-young-writers/
What was his/her dream growing up? Did he/she achieve this dream?

Questionnaires for Writing Character Profiles - Creative Writing Help

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/writing-character-profiles.html

Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2

Write the first 250 words of a short story, but write them in ONE SENTENCE. Make sure that the sentence is grammatically correct and punctuated correctly. http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50xs2.htm