Writing in Shorthand
Do you sabotage your writing by getting mired in details? Does finding the just-right name for a character or struggling with the specifics of a scene keep you from moving forward? These are some of the ways I’ve sabotaged my own writing in the past. If you struggle with this too, try [...]
It’s in the Bag
I grew up on words. My mother taught me how to read by writing each new word down on an index card. Many nights, I would sprawl out on the floor with my box of words and string stories together, composed of a single rambling run-on sentence that would span half of the family [...]
The Elements of Style
When I took my first editing job, my boss sat me down and gave me a short list of books to invest in. This was the first book on my list, and has been a permanent resident on my bookshelves for over ten years now. You may know it simply as Strunk and [...]
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Kimberly Gonzalez
reader, writer, freelance copyeditor & proofreader, foster & adoptive mom