No Contest for Content

Last week I missed my Sunday visual poetry due to a very fun and special family birthday party, so today I’ll be exploring two homographs: Content and Contest. Content & Contest Let’s start with a quick overview of the meanings of our homographs from dictionary.com. Each of these has two pronunciations as well. Content (kon-tent):Continue reading “No Contest for Content”

More Fun Discoveries – #LitMag+ The Sequel

  I received another acceptance letter this morning! The story I submitted to Speculative 66 called “The Scout” will be published April 6th. As I mentioned in previous posts, I enjoy writing challenges and having to write a story in such a small and specific word count is a great exercise. The story they areContinue reading “More Fun Discoveries – #LitMag+ The Sequel”

Want More Readers?

While preparing my next newsletter, I noticed that my last one had a bunch of great information in it. I don’t want anyone to miss out, so here it is to give you a taste of what goes into my newsletters. If you like it, please sign up to get monthly installments and your freeContinue reading “Want More Readers?”

Experience Writing: This site is about you. Tell me what you want in the new year and a free gift!

This year is all about you!     I recently took a course from Open University Australia called Write for the Web. The course opened my eyes to some fundamental truths about writing. The first truth–seems obvious, but created a shift in my outlook–I am writing for you. To write good content, I need to know whatContinue reading “Experience Writing: This site is about you. Tell me what you want in the new year and a free gift!”