Pros and Cons of Being Too Literal
I’m one of those people who interprets words in their most literal definition, which can be good or bad if you write for a living. Case in point: A friend tells me about her part in a play about the...
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In a moment of frustration, I recently posted on Facebook how I find it annoying when people refer to the book in the Bible as Revelations. It’s Revelation, not Revelations. To my surprise, I got a...
View ArticleTen Ways to Improve Your Writing
I knew I’d be a writer when my eighth-grade English teacher told me to read aloud my essay on her two-page assignment called “If I could go anywhere in the world, where would that be and why?” While...
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