Ernestly Speaking
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[S@methought’s Øn Edᴒiting
February 13, 2024 Everyone needs an editor. Everyone. (Including editors.) Editing is multi-step process, best returned to after a walk, a glass of vino, rereading the larger context, and/or a good night’s sleep. Editing others’ writing is a humbling undertaking. It exposes one’s impatience and tests one’s memory for obscure citation rules, “comma” sense, and Continue reading
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Who Are We Talking About When We Write?
Sept 19, 2023 Where do authors get their characters? People ask me, “How do you come up with characters?” But really, don’t we all know “characters” in life? People whose hearts break, people whose dreams go unfulfilled, people whose courage inspires, people whose beauty redeems, people whose scabs and callouses cover early betrayals and sin-soaked Continue reading
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Ernestly Speaking…on Words and Reading
Books September 2023 I have had a life of privilege–the written word has surrounded me all my life. Not everyone has such a spectacular blessing. So many words in so many formats! My mother’s “women’s” magazines. Sears Roebuck and Penny catalogs. Highlights Magazine (remember Goofus and Gallant?). Scholastic Books fliers taken home to order favorite Continue reading
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