by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Writers are artist in every sense of the word. They create worlds on paper that inspire and comfort. They see things below the surface. I found this quote inspiring. “I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was so looking forward to Saturday. I’ve been working extra hours at my job and this Saturday was the start of the Labor Day weekend. Three days to carve out extended periods of time to write. Three days to create words on page after page. I had my writing...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 2, 2015 | Writer's musings
Today would have been my baby sister Carol’s 55th birthday. She died two years ago of liver cancer. Carol was one of my cheerleaders. Writers are always advised to not rely on family to critique our books because their opinion is tainted by their love for us. That’s...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Are your characters believable? Believable characters resonate with readers. They keep us reading to the end. Flat, one dimensional main characters rarely see the light of publication. (I say rarely because some self-pub books have flat main characters, and those soon...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 26, 2015 | Writng Tips Grammar Tips
Modifiers are another one of those grammar terms we need to pause over and be sure they are right in sentences. Do you recall the old example? “Throw the cow over the fence some hay.” It always made us laugh and was a great example of a literal translation from German...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Don’t you just hate it? You run the spell check on your article and find ridiculous correction suggestions. I love the little red and blue squiggly lines. Word catches lots of obvious typos like then when you mean than. Misspelled words like mena instead of mean and...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 19, 2015 | Grammar tips
Have you ever gotten confused writing subject verb agreement? I know the whole question makes you yawn. Don’t click away from my blog now. Subject verb agreement is easy to ignore in your initial first draft. Struggling to get the thoughts to flow the mechanics of...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 17, 2015 | Writng Tips Grammar Tips
Antecedents??? Would you believe I got an A in English in high school. And unless I look it up, I can’t recall the definition of an antecedent. In my defense English class was over forty years ago. And as I said in a previous post, I tend to go with what sounds right....
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 12, 2015 | Grammar tips, Writng Tips
Ever get the dreaded editor’s comment on your manuscript “You need stronger verbs.” Editors describe your verbs as passive, weak, dead or flat? Yep! You know you have. As promised, today’s post is about weak verbs. The second hazard mentioned in Joyce Ellis’ booklet 8...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 10, 2015 | Writng Tips
Grammar rules for me are as boring as listening to a high school literature class read Shakespeare out loud. But a professional reading is enthralling. Well, I’m enthralled by a little booklet by my friend Joyce Ellis, whom I consider the Queen of Grammar rules, as an...
