Learning to write – Virginia S. Anderson

Four Great Shares at Just Can’t Help Writing!

What should writers know about trademarked names or brand names? How should you handle these names in your fiction? Adirondack Editing, via Chris the Story Reading Ape, helps out!

Phoebe Quinn at A Writer’s Path has a list of seven writing mistakes that are all too easy to make—and some ideas for improving. See if you spot yourself in this list! I did.

And if, unlike me, you’ve been struggling to keep up with SEO, here’s some good news: SEO tricks we writers can let go of, from Torque.

Speaking of tech stuff, I found this post from Bookworks on basic tech skills for writers more than helpful. Check it out!

A FUN LIST! Do You Hear Any of These Writing “Rules” from Your Groups?

Check out “12 Dumb Things New Writers Tell Each Other.”

The "dumb writing rules" monster — The “writing rules” monster! He can go wild!

Do you have any to add? I’d add fear of the word “had” and terror of starting sentences with “and” or “but.”

TWO NEW SUMMARIES AT COLLEGE COMPOSITION WEEKLY!

In the June College Composition and Communication, Chris Anson explores what happens when an expert writer attempts a new genre. And Joanne Baird Giordano and Holly Hassel argue in the May Teaching English in the Two-Year College for the value of developmental work and open access, even if not every student succeeds.

NEW AT JUST CAN’T HELP WRITING: Overbudget on “To be”? Use “Absolutes”

Use “absolutes” to cut back on “to be” verbs in progressive tenses, and build your voice as well.

AT JUST CAN’T HELP WRITING: BUILD YOUR NOVEL’S WORLD!

SciFi and Fantasy writers talk about building worlds. But world-building can make the difference between a place we can take or leave or a place we just can’t tear ourselves away from.