Write What You Know

I must be a born rebel. (Well, I am a Mississippian and I did graduate from Ole Miss…) When it comes to fiction-writing rules, I […]

Compose / Comprise

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: COMPOSE / COMPRISE One […]

Who / Whom

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: WHO / WHOM Who […]

Z-Nouns: A Modest Proposal

Z-Nouns A Modest Proposal   I would like to apologize to the many women writers, editors, agents, and publishers out there in the literary field […]

Complementary / Complimentary

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: COMPLEMENTARY / COMPLIMENTARY These […]

Cement / Concrete

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: CEMENT / CONCRETE The […]

When Less Is Not More

When I finished the first draft of A Bit of Sun, my first novel, it comprised 234,000 words. “Oh, Ann,” you are thinking, “haven’t you […]

Evoking Emotion

Years ago, while I was living in the Islands, my husband, Jim, made the careless comment that it shouldn’t take more than six weeks for […]

Capital / Capitol

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: CAPITAL / CAPITOL A […]

Also / Too

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: ALSO / TOO One […]