The author invites you to consider the wide array of possibilities within a sibling relationship to add depth and motivation to your characters.
Author: Gear and Pen
Top Five Recipes for 3.14 day AKA. Pie Day.
It’s 3.14 Day! Celebrate with five easy pie recipes for busy writers. Writer approved.
Valentine’s DIY Spa Day for Busy Writers
Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be just for romance. As busy writers, we often need some time to relax. This Valentine’s Day let’s show ourselves and our friends some love with a DIY spa day.
Five Winter Recipes for Busy Writers
Just because authors are busy with life and writing doesn’t mean that we can’t have good food. Come explore some simple winter recipes for busy writers.
The Importance of Research in Writing
Research has a bad reputation. Some people might have topics which interest them that they can research with some enjoyment, but as a whole, research is one of those tasks we must simply get done. What if you are a fiction writer? I’m talking straight up fiction, not historical. You have simply created your own […]
Sneaky Prepositions: The Controversy of the Preposition Rule
I know that these grammar posts are likely to open me up for harsh ridicule. I am telling people that there are rules to learn, and there are many who get hostile when they are told there are standards. In fact, the source which prompted my writing this post spent most of their post mocking […]
Five Autumn Recipes for Busy Writers
It probably seemed a little horse-before-the-cart for me to encourage my readers to eat better foods in my blog post, You Are What You Eat, by warning to avoid chemical additives, without giving a remedy; “Here’s what not to do” without a “Here’s what you can do.” Let me . . . ahem . . […]
The Importance of Stories
Why have stories endured through the ages? Stories have been around as long as history; oral or written. First, there are true stories, which are, obviously, history. These are passed down verbally from person to person or written down for future generations to read. I doubt that many people would debate the importance of history; […]
“Conjunctions” or “The Marriage of Thoughts” Pt. 2
I would like to start part 2 of my conjunctions blog post by revisiting one of the examples in part 1. If you recall, I gave an example from English Grammar for Dummies by Geraldine Woods and showed how modern authors would “fix” a run-on sentence. Here is that portion of my previous post. “‘I […]
“Conjunctions” or “The Marriage of Thoughts”
I would like my first post about grammar to focus on a pet peeve of mine. There is a tendency in writing that has grown more and more pronounced with the passage of time. This tendency is for conjunctions to be used after a period, or in other words, at the beginning of a sentence. […]