Writers: avoid these clichés like the plague!
If you want to keep your writing from sounding too predictable, read this post by Delia Cabe from Boston.com about over-used pet words, phrases and devices.
Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
If you want to keep your writing from sounding too predictable, read this post by Delia Cabe from Boston.com about over-used pet words, phrases and devices.
Thanks to those who entered my cartoon caption contest. The winner: John Hewitt of Poewar fame. I’ve been a fan of John’s Poewar: Writing Career Center since its early days.
Because some of you have been asking, I’ve started to post about my experience with switching from WordPress to Squarespace.
The subtitle of Ink Gleanings is “Harvesting Tips For The Writer’s Life.” In each post, Katie writes about what she’s reading, writing, and a thought about the writing process. You can also find Katie on Twitter at @katiereads.
Thanks to Lydia LeRoy-Williams for giving me The Versatile Blogger Award!Here are the rules: Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award. Share 7 things about yourself. Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason! . . .
Hurray, Inkygirl has been successfully moved to Squarespace! If you’re reading this post in your old feed, then all is well – I’d appreciate it if you’d post below to let me know. You can find a list of my updated feeds in the top right corner of this page. . . .
Just letting you all know that I’ve decided to move Inkygirl to Squarespace. I appreciate all your suggestions, info and feedback. While I’m moving some of my sites to Squarespace, some will be moved to other services some of you have mentioned (still researching the latter). No need to change your . . .
So it looks as if Inkygirl’s been hacked again (if you missed reading about the first one, see this post). This time the hack is more subtle (no malware) and only noticeable in search engines. If you try entering “inkygirl” in Google right now, here’s what you get as the top . . .