Tag: (business) Writing

Other Cool Blogs: Magical Words 3/18/2011

Erin Penn

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The preposition gnome stared at me through the grass. His evil stare hinting, daring me to stand up and run away. But, no, I shall prevail over his grammatical limitations and make my writing gleam.

Kalayna Price has given me the understanding to build the weapons in her Magical Words post “The Preposition Gnome” on 3/18/2011:

Look, I’m not an English major. Understanding what prepositions are, and how to use them best to make lean exciting writing isn’t easy. Ms. Price’s blog gave me insight to this grammar word division.

Other Cool Blogs: Magical Words 8/28/2010

Erin Penn

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One of my favorite things is coming up with titles. The poetry of it, capturing the essence in a few words. Like modern painting where a few strokes of a brush captures the movement of a dancer.

Glass Ceiling Policy; Red Mug; Scrimshaw; Roulette Leadership; I was never there; Small Fiddle; Waking up Dead; Lost Doorknobs

The title needs to be unique, yet accessible. Understandable by the reader, but not lost in a library search.

          Memorable.

                    Applicable.

                              Common

                                        and also uncommon.

Edumund Schubert tackles this topic on Magical Words 8/28/2010 “How to Title Your Story – Or Not”:

B is for BIC

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B is BIC – Butt in Chair

The most important thing about being a writer is writing. To do that you need to … write!

Sit on that hiney in a chair and put words on paper or hands on keyboard.

So many things throw this off, anything that completely changes your life: a new baby, holidays, starting or ending a job, or a global pandemic. The process changes and now you got to figure out a new one. But at the end of the day, the process boils down to the simplest form – Butt in Chair.

Catie Murphy explains her take on this in a Magical Words post from 12/015/2011. You can see the original here: It’s all about the timing. As always read the comments.

Another good source John Hartness vlog – Writing while the world burns.

This month I am working an the A to Z challenge, the NaNoWritMo camp, the end of tax season, and three book edits (I’m an editor for Falstaff Books) due before the end of tax season. Why do the first two when I got the last two to deal with? Because BIC needed an extra nudge.

Good luck to everyone visiting for the A to Z blogging challenge – may your BIC be fun and productive this month.