WRITING TIP: Fiction and Non-Fiction Need Dialogue, Not Dialect
Dialogue, YES. Dialect, NO. “Wellya dun lit up dat barn wit ya stoopidutee.” Trying to write using phonetic spellings in order to show a speaker’s dialect causes more problems than it’s worth. Even though Mark Twain used it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...
Extraordinary Leaders Use What-If Scenarios
The leader of a household can literally prevent tragedy and death by having, discussing, and practicing emergency plans. What is the escape route in case of a house fire? What should children do if the adults are not able? Where are the hurricane preparation...
Ignite Your Opening to Warm up Your Readers FAST
No one is reading your piece of writing long enough to get to the juicy part. They have no patience for a slow warm-up. If your audience isn’t attached to their seat with Velcro, they are quietly leaving. The above opening is a paragraph infused with a bit of...
