I cannot even tell you how pumped I am to have Susan Kaye Quinn joining us today. This lady started her own writing journey about the same time as Erynn and I. We clicked from the get-go, and it has been surreal to watch her rocket onto the bestseller lists. Her fuel is 100% determination. […]
Verbs: Keeping It Simple
Happy National Grammar Day, peoples. Let’s get our Grammar Fix(ed)!If you missed the bird’s-eye view of verbs, check it out here. Today, we’re going to home in on the simple forms of a verb. The simple form indicates that an action occurs and usually implies that it wasn’t repeated. I choked on frozen Reese’s pieces […]
Verb Tenses: A Bird’s-Eye View
Get your grammar fix(ed) in a minute or less. For the next four Grammar posts (tucked in between our Spelunking Speculative Fiction posts), we’re gonna get down and dirty with verb tenses. Why? Because it’s important to writing. Writing comes across as weak if your characters are only BEING instead of doing. Or if they’re […]
Speculative Fiction: Dystopian
‘Ello loves. Today we get to talk with one of my (Erynn’s) crit partners. She also happens to be the best Deep POV writer and just one of the coolest people I know. Her series, Haven Seekers, is set in a dystopian future that is frighteningly similar to our own world. Well, why don’t I just […]
Yowzer! Exclamatory and Imperative Sentences: Get Your Grammar Fix(ed)
Exclamation points! They can be overdone! Seriously!!! Are you tired of this yet?! Middle school.A writer who has practiced his craft knows to avoid exclamation points. Over-usage marks you as a beginner.We’ve talked recently about the difference between an interrogative sentence and a declarative sentence.There are two other types of sentences: exclamatory and imperative.An exclamatory sentence […]
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