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August 25, 2016
Violent Loss Resources Newsletter, September 1, 2016
Violent Loss Resources Newsletter, September 1, 2016
Topic of the Month: Prosecuting the Case, Continued
Question of the Month: What happened in your case?
News: National Day for Remembering Homicide Victims
Resource of the Month
Inspiration
Topic of the Month: Prosecuting the case, Chapter Seven, Murder Survivor’s Handbook .
While there are many families who do get their case heard in a court of law; there are those who are still waiting for their day...
August 16, 2016
Breaking News: Olympics Update—Underdogs Fiji and New Zealand Top the Medal Count
So, I stay up to effing midnight to get some pole vault action and what do I get in return from NBC? Six vaults as an afterthought to four hours of at times interminable, jingoistic coverage. (My friend Rich in Seattle got to watch the entire event—live—via Canadian TV.) Although NBC did include the Canuck decanucking and the ultimate winner. I’m happy for the Brazilian. Nice to see a (sort of) underdog win.
Kiwi rowers take first gold for New Zealand.
Ditto for the balance beam—I’m happy for...
August 4, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #0
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The eleventh of a ten-part series.
#0. Extra: (A Few of) My Language Pet Peeves: Word Contortion, Distortion & Deformation (Hoping for Reformation)
Some misused and abused words, terms, and phrases that bug the crap out of me ...
mall — a public area often set with shade trees and designed as a promenade or as a pedestrian walk (not a shopping center).Example: the National Mall in Washington, DC, and th...
August 2, 2016
News you can use … August 1, 2016
Violent Loss Resources Newsletter, August 1, 2016
News you can use …
Topic of the Month: Prosecuting the Case: Survivor Voices
Question of the Month: What happened in your case?
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News: Two Day Conference 2017: Traumatic Grief after Violent Dying
Inspiration: “Not Forgotten” Project in Chicago contains photos and interviews
Resource of the Month: Victim Law
Violent Loss Resources Newsletter, August 1, 2016
News you can use … collected for you in July. (Scroll down...
August 1, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #1
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The tenth of a ten-part series.
#1. Verbal Abuse: Lie Down with Lay & Related Verb Warps
Drum roll please ... the error I see most often when editing manuscripts concerns the use of the confounding verb lie, which is often confused with the related verb, lay.
Lay vs. Lie
The confusion lies with lay, which has two related yet distinct meanings:
1. lay: to put or place or set something (i.e., an object) some...
July 29, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #2
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The ninth of a ten-part series.
#2. Apostrophic Calamity: Apostrophe vs. Dumb Quotes
More from the Ripping Out One’s Hair Department: The oft-abused, disrespected apostrophe.
I implore you: Please, do NOT use a single quotation mark in place of an apostrophe. It is NOT the same thing. And, please, do NOT insert an apostrophe in a plural noun; the apostrophe in that context means possession or ownership, no...
July 27, 2016
Book Publishing Beds Big Data
Forget the literary agent, submit your book to the AI Book Machine . . . but you’d better pick the right one: Intellogo? Inkitt? Or?
The brave new world of book publishing reads more and more like a Stephen King novel.
Big Data? Oh, Brother!
“In this digital future, using machine learning platforms can provide publishers with opportunities to get real-time information about their readers ...”
Read on: Yes, Machine Learning Can Help Predict a Bestseller
What happened to the monkey?
“Imagine a...
July 25, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #3
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The eighth of a ten-part series.
#3. Pronounflagration: Pronoun Profusion, Confusion, and Contusion
When you write something, you know your intent, what it is you mean to say. Your readers, however, may not. This can be particularly true when using pronouns, those shorthand words we use in place of nouns and names: I, me, he, she, him, her, it, and so on.
When your story or narrative includes multiple char...
July 22, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #4
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The seventh of a ten-part series.
#4. Dash It All! Part B: Em Dash—The Separator
The em dash serves an entirely different function than the hyphen and en dash, which I described in the previous blog. Where the hyphen and en dash are used to join text, the em dash is used to separate text. It can be used in place of commas (or parentheses) to enhance readability—or for emphasis—by setting off a word or phra...
July 13, 2016
Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #5
From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)
The sixth of a ten-part series.
#5. Dash It All! Part A: Hyphen and En Dash
I must dash—but I am taking time to post the first of a two-parter on those straight-line thingies people use (and abuse) when “punchuating” their words. (Yep, these’re worth fightin’ over!) I will post the second part next week.
We have three types of punctuation marks that look enough alike to create confusion:
You see? Size doe...
