by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 16, 2014 | Living in Place
As promised in A Sentence is a Complete Thought, today’s post is devoted to Parallel Structure. Parallel structure aids coherence by balancing nouns with nouns, prepositional phrases with prepositional phrases, and main clauses with main clauses. It might help to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 26, 2014 | Living in Place
A sentence is a complete thought, containing both subject and verb. The subject is what the sentence is about, and the verb is what the subject is doing.Here’s an example of a sentence: I write.“I” is the subject, and “write” is what I do.Simple as that. (“Simple as...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 12, 2014 | Living in Place
As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, “It’s easy to get published – and hard to get read.” I was reminded of this at Bookstock, where I met many self-published authors selling their books. Selling books at a literary festival makes sense but not cents, according to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 29, 2014 | Living in Place
On Saturday, Wendy E. N. Thomas, Lisa J. Jackson and I appeared at the Bookstock Literary Festival to talk about writing this collaborative blog. Wendy kicked the panel discussion off with the story of how the blog started, back in 2010. Live to Write – Write to Live...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 15, 2014 | Living in Place
Since my mother died nearly two years ago, Dad’s been sifting through their belongings. Even though they’d downsized twice before, they’d accumulated lots of stuff during their sixty-six year marriage. What was left were the important pieces: the handcrafted cherry...
