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- Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:21 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--2nd person
- Replies: 35
- Views: 35443
Re: Be a Better Writer--YOU WRITE IN 2ND PERSON
Hi, Shann! I think you got it with my piece. so much!
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:22 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--2nd person
- Replies: 35
- Views: 35443
Re: Be a Better Writer--YOU WRITE IN 2ND PERSON
O.k., here I go with 2nd person. . . "You, yes, you the one who thinks of yourself only speck on that third rock from the sun. Well, I've got to tell you,the first off, I AM the one who created that rock where you reside on and I do not consider you a mere speck! You are a child of Mine along ...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:01 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--2nd person
- Replies: 35
- Views: 35443
Re: Be a Better Writer--YOU WRITE IN 2ND PERSON
Diane, the nurse cartoon with EXTREMELY large syringe, just plain gave the 'willies'!! This is coming from a diabetic, no less!!
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:21 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--AVOID THESE COMMON ERRORS
- Replies: 18
- Views: 40173
Re: Be a Better Writer--AVOID THESE COMMON ERRORS
Jan, again! As usual, excellent timing for this writer!! A great times, I wonder if I am using THE right word, or rather, the correct spelling of that right word. Again, a huge
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:45 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7956
Re: Thanks
I so agree to that has been written thus, far!! Jan,your instruction has help this newbie fiction-writer.
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:18 pm
- Forum: Rules, Ratings, Judges and Official Info
- Topic: "Language deemed inappropriate for Christian readers"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17013
Re: "Language deemed inappropriate for Christian readers"
I, personally, am deeply happy that I 'Googled' the phrase "Christian writers' forums" a while ago!! This is my Internet home where this Christian wannbe writer is settled in permanently!
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 2:48 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22716
Re: Be a Better Writer--CONTEMPORARY FICTION
I just finished reading "Subtle Softening"--wow, that may have been taken right out of my mom's diary, if she wrote in one. She was very overprotective of me; she had already lost her eldest daughter to our mom's alcoholism. Add to this fact I had a congenital heart defect. So, I can plac...
- Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--SUSPENSE/THRILLER
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12710
Re: Be a Better Writer--SUSPENSE/THRILLER
That story IS very good, Gerry!
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:33 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--HUMOR WRITING
- Replies: 33
- Views: 33713
Re: Be a Better Writer--HUMOR WRITING
Joanne, I love your "Care for an Apple?". It was wonderful, I laughed and that something we all do need!! Keep up this excellent work!
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:44 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
- Replies: 50
- Views: 58827
Re: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
bunches! I so aspire to write in a similar style as Mr. Steinbeck, in my own story; your instructions has helped big-time! I need to be be more bold with nouns, within my own products.
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
- Replies: 50
- Views: 58827
Re: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
Here are my two sentences: Anne had seen the lovely bird land on its owner's shoulder. Anne had seen the iridescent green and crimson feathered parrot, fly onto its owner's leather-covered shoulder. From John Steinbeck's "East of Eden"--- "On the wide level acres of the valley the top...
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:00 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New Writing Lessons--TIGHT WRITING
- Replies: 102
- Views: 269456
Re: Jan's New Writing Lessons--TIGHT WRITING
This is my try: As Doreen sat in the subway train, heading home, a large man sat next to her, causing her a deal of discomfort. As the train entered the second of five tunnels, Doreen kicked herself mentally, for not buying one of those back-lit electronic books. While in the tunnel, she heard the m...