by lzadmin | Jan 8, 2014 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
From “Love is Blue” crooned by Frank Sinatra to “My World is Blue” by White Trash Clan to “Yellow” sung by Coldplay to “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree” performed by Tony Orlando to “It’s Not Easy...
by lzadmin | Jan 4, 2014 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Writing is fun! Line editing—not so much. Many new writers are adrift on an ocean of punctuation and capitalization errors. Swimming though a shark-infested murky sea of comma and grammar rules is fraught with em-dash typhoons and ellipses tidal waves....
by lzadmin | Dec 26, 2013 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
A man’s home is his/her castle. It’s also chock full of symbolic furnishings and doodads. Give your story some symbolic zing by being familiar with a few of the household symbolic heavyweights. Books: Wisdom and learning. Is the book old or new? Are pages torn out...
by lzadmin | Dec 23, 2013 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Eyes are powerful symbols. The mere glance glimmer gawk gaze ogle glare bore focus beam sparkle peek peer look goggle gape leer ( did I miss any?) reveals a character’s emotions. No wonder the eyes are the windows of the soul. But there’s more to eyes...
by lzadmin | Dec 21, 2013 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Folks–writers and students–seem to like my word lists, so here they are in easily accessible jpeg and pdf form. DEAD Words: blah words that just don’t really do anything for your prose or academic paper. dead word list pdf Commonly Confused Words:...