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- February 16th, 2010, 9:18 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: My Weird Experiment
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2821
Re: My Weird Experiment
Hi, guys, thanks for your comments. Here’s a summary. PHASE 1 Phase 1 was simply putting the website up, the wallpapers up, the video up, then telling family and friends about it and watching the results. The numbers have slowed to just 1 or 2 new Facebook fans a day and about 10 YouTube views a day...
- February 11th, 2010, 10:45 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How to write thoughts in MG
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3986
Re: How to write thoughts in MG
Could someone please tell me the correct way to write thoughts in middle grade? I am getting so many different answers and want to get it right. I have been told by some aspiring writers that I should put thoughts in italics or add ' she thought' I’ve been told this way is telling and not showing. ...
- February 11th, 2010, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: My Weird Experiment
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2821
My Weird Experiment
(I don't know if this is where I should post this or not, but it seemed like the most appropriate place. Please move/remove it if I did a faux pas.) So, I've started this wee little experiment, mostly for my own information and amusement, to see what Internet marketing can do for a book...that hasn'...
- January 15th, 2010, 12:13 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: American dialogue
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13311
Re: American dialogue
Don't know if it would be of help to you, but something I've noticed amongst my grandmother's little parties for her friends (who are, of course, of an advanced age), is that the older generation in the US uses a speech that more closely resembles British English (with different colloquialisms). For...
- January 14th, 2010, 8:54 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Serial commas: yes or no
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4724
Re: Serial commas: yes or no
A resounding YES!
- January 14th, 2010, 8:50 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10026
Re: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
Whenever I write, I go through the computer version first and pick out all the obvious mistakes--typos, misspelled words, duplicates, etc.--then, when it is clean, I print it out and read it out loud. That points out obvious problems that reading silently doesn't. Then I edit it on paper cutting out...