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	Writing Tips

wurdzgurl

12-30-2007 9:57 PM

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1-1-2008 6:59 PM

Hawkeye_84

These are all excellent recommendations. Nice clip!

1-1-2008 11:29 PM

eaglewings1983

Inspiring, illuminating, instructing!

1-2-2008 12:23 AM

neochonetes

Great choice, wurdzgirl! Lynn Truss is the diva of grammar. I read Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and it was most humorous.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ccec5a80-6427-4495-a9cb-bfbf869d2d1f/37A94325-7ECC-470A-920B-625796A947DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever" href="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever" style="font-size: 11px;">www.writingforward.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Read as much and as often as you can. Remember, every writer is a reader first.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Invest in a few valuable resources starting with <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226104036?ie=UTF8&tag=writingforward-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226104036">The Chicago Manual of Style</A><IMG width="1" height="1" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=writingforward-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0226104036" /></EM>, <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592402038?ie=UTF8&tag=writingforward-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1592402038">Eats, Shoots  &  Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation</A><IMG width="1" height="1" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=writingforward-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1592402038" />,</EM> and <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0205313426?ie=UTF8&tag=writingforward-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0205313426">The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition</A><IMG width="1" height="1" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=writingforward-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0205313426" />.</EM></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Grammar: learn the rules and then break them.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Join a writers’ group so you can enjoy support and comradery in your craft.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Create a space in your home especially for writing.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Write every single day.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Let go of your inner editor. When you sit down to write a draft, refrain from proofreading until that draft is complete.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Allow yourself to write poorly, to write a weak, uninteresting story or a boring, grammatically criminal poem. You’ll never succeed if you don’t allow yourself a few failures along the way.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">You are a writer so own up and say it out loud, “I am a writer.” Whether it’s a hobby or your profession, you have the right to this title.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips-tricks/the-22-best-writing-tips-ever"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Write, write, write, and then write some more. 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