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Insidious "the" and 23 other words to cut from your writing

July 30, 2019

When I was fourteen, my descriptive paragraph of a drowning man won me a place at the school district’s yearly creative writing workshop. This workshop turned out to be a big deal for me, and not just because I got out of classes for a week, though that was a terrific bonus for a tenth-grader. This …

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Tags overused words editing copyedit line edit

Don't Make Me Blush! Is Your Cover too Hot?

July 10, 2019

You might have noticed that Facebook groups are all abuzz about the new changes to the mysterious algorithm that Facebook uses to decide what content gets pushed out to your fans from your author page.

I say mysterious because FB doesn’t really want you to know all the details. That would…

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Favorite Research Tools for Writers

July 10, 2019

Today, I took a trip from Londonium to Constantinopolis. I travelled by road, river and sea. It took me 50 days and cost 1505 denarii. And I did it all without leaving my desk thanks to ORBIS, The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World.