With the tremendous growth of IMs, email and even text messaging, written communication has become decidedly more casual the last few years. Sometimes it can help all of us to go back to the basics, sort of in the say way professional baseball players may spend time on ’simple things’ like fielding grounders or catching […]
Education Portal, a web portal about degree programs, career information, school reviews, and education news has a list of 10 online university programs offering free writing courses.
Whether you are a current writer or looking to break into the craft, formal writing courses can help you hone your skills. If you don’t have the money or […]
Arguably, one of the most popular fiction writers of the past few decades is Stephen King. He also has a memoir/how-to-write book On Writing - and the folks at The Positivity Blog have highlighted his Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer.
They include:
1. Get to the point.
2. Write a draft. Then let it rest.
3. […]
Ok, while most of you may not ‘blog’, a blog is about writing, and you do write. Right? Typos are a fact of life, especially in live role-play. But there are those words that always seem to trip us up.
I Scored a 93%!
The folks at Just Say Hi have put together The Blogger […]
Writing for Role Playing is all about expressing your creativity. There has been countless debates over the tendency by some to over-use the thesaurus to the point it’s earned it’s own moniker, ‘purple-prose’.
Everyone seems to have their own threshold when it comes to thesaurus-thumping, and Andi over at Daily Writing Tips offers up an article […]
We’ve already covered how important it is to at least spellcheck and proofread your writing. If you post to message boards using Firefox, you have a built in spellchecker you can work with. If you don’t (and why don’t you?), check out SpellJax, an AJAX powered spellchecker.
Just copy and paste your text in to the […]
Lydia Loran suggested this list of the 100 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English.
Dr. Language has provided a one-stop cure for all your spelling ills. Here are the 100 words most often misspelled (’misspell’ is one of them). Each word has a mnemonic pill with it and, if you swallow it, it will help you […]
“But it can’t have spelling mistakes! I ran spell check!” I hear this quite often. While running spell check on your documents is very important, it certainly is not a foolproof means of making sure that your documents are error free.
Firefox is just one browser that has a built in spell check, and just about […]
Daniel over at Daily Writing Tips takes a humorous look at the issue of proofreading your writing, even if you use a spell checker.
You should proofread virtually any written piece, from emails to blog posts. Proofread your homework as well, since you don’t want to drive the principle of your school crazy.
The Impotence of Proofreading […]
