By Hope Hall Commas are complicated. They come with too many rules and just as many exceptions to those rules. Even if you want to break the rules, you have to know them to break them. And once you know them, you can recognize when following or breaking the...
By Hope Hall I think that writing is taught much the same as we teach grammar. Teaching someone how grammar works is not teaching them to read. They must know how to read to understand grammar. Creative writing has patterns much like grammar has patterns. These...
How to Get Your Book Published Many people dream of becoming an author. Becoming a published author can be daunting, and as any professional writer will tell you, requires real work. Authors invest countless hours into developing a story. You conduct research, you...
Occasionally, in our lives, we are fortunate enough to stumble upon greatness. The problem is, I don’t think we always recognize greatness during our initial encounter. Maybe we get too wrapped up in our own problems, our own visions or our own lives. Maybe we’d...
There are two questions that I get asked all the time that seem to be a set up for disappointment: 1. What makes a book great? 2. What are your favorite books? I always get the feeling that I am expected to give some sort of profound answer to the first question....
