Updated Index to Grace's Writing & Editing Blogs

 

Cartoon in The Orlando Sentinel.

  A twist on Mother's Day, one we all applaud.

(For my foreign readers, the cartoon refers to the mother who was filmed grabbing her son out of the rioting in Baltimore and dragging him home. (Video revealed he was at least a head taller than she!)

 

 

Busy week - speaking to the Girl Scouts & doing a panel of Ivy League authors at Orlando's main library.

 

Note: The pen-name "Daryn Parke" has been laid to rest. The Art of Evil is available online with Blair Bancroft as author.

Since I'll be moving over the next ten days to two weeks - and don't know how long I'll be computerless - below is the Updated Index to all my Writing & Editing blogs since 2011.I hope you'll find some topics of interest. When I get back online, I'll be finishing up the last sections of my Writing Workshop.

 



UPDATED INDEX

to Grace's Writing & Editing Blogs

  May 9, 2015

2011:

The Writing 101 series
1.  Formatting a Manuscript - May 9, 2011
2.  Nuts & Bolts, Part 1(grammar, punctuation) - May 16, 2011
3.  Tab conversion (from manual to auto) - June 5, 2011
4.  Nuts & Bolts, Part 2 - June 16, 2011
5.  I Ran Spell Check, I'm Done, Right? (self-editing) - July 5, 2011
6.  The Final Steps (self-editing) - July 14, 2011

More Nuts & Bolts
Using Capitals 1 - April 12, 2014
Using Capitals 2 - April 19, 2014
Using Italics 1 - February 15, 2014
Using Italics 2 - February 22, 2014

2012:

EDIT THE BLASTED BOOK series
1.  Intro to Self-editing - April 1, 2012
2.  Should you hire help? - April 28, 2012
3.  Manuscript Format for the 21st Century - May 6, 2012
4.  Writing No-No's - May 28, 2012
5.  Point of View - June 18, 2012
6.  Anatomy of an Edit, Part 1 - August 5, 2012
7.  Anatomy of an Edit, Part 2 - August 19, 2012


HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTERS series
Part 1 - What you need to discover about your characters - October 15, 2012
Part 2 - More questions about your characters - October 29, 2012
Part 3 - The Rest of the story - November 5, 2012

2013:

DICTIONARY FOR WRITERS series (5 parts)  - February. 4 - April 7, 2013

REMINISCENCES OF CONTROVERSIES series (3 parts) - May 13 - May 26, 2013
    [a look at a number of “writing” controversies over the past decade or so]
              
EDITING series
Part 1 - Layering - June 30, 2013
Part 2 - Dangling Participles - July 7, 2013
Part 3 - Show vs Tell 1 - July 21, 2013
Part 4 - Show vs Tell 2 - July 28, 2013
Part 5 - Treacherous Words - August 11, 2013
Part 6 - The Difference a Word Makes - September 1, 2013
Part 7 - “Modern” Punctuation - September 15, 2013
Part 8 - Questions to Ask Yourself - October 13, 2013


2013-2014:

WORLD BUILDING series (4 parts) - December 28, 2013 - February 1, 2014

Editing Scold - December 14, 2013
More on Editing - May 3, 2014 (including more on Show vs. Tell)
Third Person vs. First (2 parts) - May 31 & June 8, 2014
Rule-Breaking 101 (3 parts) - June 21 - July 5, 2014
Editing Examples (3 parts) - August 23, Aug. 30 & Sept. 13, 2014
Misused Words (2 parts) - October 4 & October 25, 2014

WRITING WORKSHOP (9 parts) - December 6, 2014 - June 28, 2015

2015:
See Writing Workshop above.*
Settings (3 parts) - March 7 - March 28, 2015

* Writing Workshop has 2-3 sections yet to be posted.

Miscellanous:

1.  Guideposts for Critiquing - January 28, 2011
2.  Writing Mistakes, Near Misses & Just Plain Strange - March 4, 2011
3.  Shortcuts for Writers (ASCII codes) - March 18, 2011
4.  Rules for Romance - September 18, 2011
5.  More Rules for Romance - October 16, 2011
6.  How Not to Write a Book - December 20, 2012
7.  Branding - Bah, humbug! [writing multi-genre] - January 21, 2013
8.  How Does Your Novel Grow? - April 28, 2013
9.  Word Perfect to Indie Pub - November 17, 2013
10. Questions Fiction Writers Should Ask Themselves - October 13, 2013
11. How Not to Write a Book - April 4, 2015

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Thanks for stopping by.

Grace
 
For Grace's website, listing all books as Blair Bancroft, click here.

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