Starlog

  • Writing to a Deadline Part 5: “I Love this stinking outline”

    If you’re just hopping into the insanity that is my writing life, check out my previous “Writing to a Deadline” posts or this won’t make sense. Wow… one thing that the outline “in my head” wanted me to write just wouldn’t work.  Yikes, would I have wasted a lot of time.  The whole scene would… Read more

  • Very Inspiring Blogger Award

    The lovely Char From Joy in the Moments recently bestowed the honor of “Inspirational Blogger” on me. I had a giggle.  It is really nice that someone finds me inspiring.  Blog awards are so nice.  They always make me grin. The caption says “Keeping the Blogisphere a beautiful place.”  Hmmmm.  Makes me want to recycle or something.… Read more

  • By Request: Passed verses Past

    Yay!  A fun grammar test! I found a great test on Grammar Monster where it gives you a paragraph (there are three different paragraphs, so you can do this three times if you like)  and you need to choose the correct form of “passed or past” 4-5 times in each paragraph.  Check it out. http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/past_passed.htm… Read more

  • What stupid writing thing did your beta find this week? I bet you have a writing crutch, too.

    Do you have a writing crutch?  Is there something you do over and over again, but you have no idea that you are doing it because it feels right? Mine, apparently, is the use of commas.  SEE!  I just did it again!  I naturally place a comma anywhere where I would pause if I were… Read more

  • The end of an Era—No more Encyclopedia Britannica

    After well over two hundred years of publication, The Encyclopedia Britannica has decided to close the doors on its presses. No more hard bound, tangible versions.  It will still, however, be available on-line. I have mixes feelings about this.  Most of them are purely sentimental.  An abridged version of the Encyclopedia Britannica (One volume, that… Read more

  • Writing to a Deadline Part 4: “I hate this stinking outline”

    If you’re just hopping into the insanity that is my writing life, check out my previous “Writing to a Deadline” posts or this won’t make sense. Outlining is not a waste of time Outlining is not a waste of time Outlining is not a waste of time ARGHHHHHH I hate this stinking outline thing! No! … Read more