by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 4, 2012 | Living in Place
For the past eight months, I’ve been diligently working at the first draft of Ellen, the working title of the current novel I’m writing. Back in January, I planned to spend one month reading and organizing the notes I’ve been collecting for years, and then...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 7, 2012 | Living in Place
For the second year in a row, I’ve served as a judge for a local writing contest, and for the second year in a row, I’ve been humbled by the variety and sincerity of the work submitted – and a bit horrified at the way the submissions have been formatted. So I thought...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 24, 2012 | Living in Place
Rather than make good on the promise with which I ended my last post [subordinate clause], to further explain coordination and subordination in prose [infinitive phrase] and risk losing my readers before the end of this complex, compound sentence...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 10, 2012 | Living in Place
I had two memorable professors in graduate school. One used to say, “and is the hardest word in the English Language to use well”; the other said, “The secret to good writing is subordination.” Essentially, they were saying the same thing. “And” is a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 26, 2012 | Living in Place
Writing is a solitary occupation, but marketing doesn’t have to be. In fact, there are only benefits to joining others as part of a good marketing strategy. All it takes is someone with energy to start the ball rolling, someone like Beth Kanell, an author of adventure...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 12, 2012 | Living in Place
What could learning to whitewater kayak possibly have to do with writing? In my case, four things: work, knowledge, companionship, and fear. #1. In the first place, I went to kayaking school on assignment, so technically, I learned to kayak for work....
