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Sep.29.2011 - 9:04 pm
Please consider submitting to a site I started with author, Kate Maruyama, Annotation Nation. We found directed reading helped us solve various writing problems. We occasionally...
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Sep.29.2011 - 8:45 pm
  Don’t writers hate routine? Not if they want to get serious writing done. After time away, removed from the U.S., the internet, social media and my daily routine, I’m back...
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Sep.28.2011 - 9:57 am
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.          ~E.B. White, The New York Times, August 3,...
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Sep.27.2011 - 3:56 pm
You're probably familiar with verbal tics - we all have them to an extent and they are part of what makes a person's speech unique. Lately, I've met a number of people in a wide...
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