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Saturday, August 16, 2008

OK, I give up!

I used to have a hard time finding things I wanted to read. Because of that, I had a lot of time to write.

Now I have too much that I want to read. With the internet and Inter Library Loan, I am able to find things to read that weren't available to me years ago.

I'm even finding great books of authors that I read as a kid. I never knew of their other books! I'm also finding a lot of newly published books on author websites. ( Deep Waters by M.D. Meyer is one of them.) Then there are the books about writing! So who has time to write?

For those of you that do, here is a website that explains many of the things writing books are frequently telling us to do, like, use the active voice, or show, don't tell, etc. This website for a high school English class explains at least eleven of these basics. So, those of you who don't mind going back to school (I could use a refresher), try out the General Writing Resources of Mr. Braiman. (And, no, you don't need to tell me where I messed up in this post... :-)

1 comment:

Solard said...

I've been so bad about commenting, so here I go:

Thanks for scouring the intarwebs and finding stuff for us to use, DJ. Mr. Braiman's site in particular is so useful, on a very practical level. Thanks for being the 'Rudder' in our Ship o' Cock-Eyed Optimists, too.
~Solard