Daily Archives: January 16, 2011

Cabbages and Kings

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

There are days when the writing business makes as much sense as Lewis Carroll, and when pondering grammar rules, it’s best to keep his advice in mind: Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. Or, that’s grammar. Continue reading →


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Openings: In the Beginning . . .

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I was thinking about what gets me hooked into reading a new book when I don’t know the author, and I have no expectations of the story. There are a zillion little signs at the beginning of a novel that … Continue reading →


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