This time of year is when we do routine maintenance on the house. As I worked on the outside walls, scraping flaking paint and digging out crumbling plaster, it occurred to me that what I did there is

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. Author: Don Roff

Revising our research study on the whole night!

Paraphrase retells another writer's thought using the words we originally owned and how we construct our sentences. The knowledge to restate the paragraph is a basic gift to understand how to prepare another

Hypocrisy? Guilty. Inconsistency? I plead Walt Whitman. Too many words, too much description, too many details. Novice writers hear it all the time. Even a prolific, best-selling author like Joyce Carol

There's a school of thought on how much revising an author should do. The first draft has a certain freshness, energy, and voice. Some paring down, fleshing out, and polishing is inevitable. For suspense