Those pesky personal pronouns
Reading Time: < 1 minute The simplest solution to avoid the whole pronoun identity problem is to avoid the third person singular entirely. Each person has a name. Use it.
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The Moral Equivalent
Reading Time: 7 minutes – SHORT STORY – In this scene from “He Said, She Said,” the owner of the Morning Sun and Evening Star tells “the troops” just what it means to go to war with an unseen enemy.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -November is a rotten time to be attempting such a feat. It’s a short month, filled with distractions. During the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, for example, people who actually have lives might be living them.
Read More NaNoWriMo wrap-up‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – Morrow crouched alongside the stretcher as the ambulance attendants splinted the woman’s leg. Still unconscious, she inhaled sharply in pain as they lifted her into the back of the ambulance.
Read More ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – She bumped over an overgrown rail line, barely maintaining control of her scooter as its front tire got caught in the recesses of the crossing and started to follow the tracks, as if with a will of its own.
Read More ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4NaNoWriMo update: Day 21
Reading Time: < 1 minute – ON WRITING – With about two-thirds of the words completed in three-quarters of the time allotted, I’m falling behind pace and it’s time to reassess whether it’s time to drop out of this year’s race. I do have a life to live, after all.
Read More NaNoWriMo update: Day 21‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Something had happened, to her, anyway, but she was putting that behind her. Or was it still in front? With no landmarks, a useless map, not even the moon to orient her, she could be going in circles.
Read More ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway there
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Today was National Novel Writing Month’s Double-Up Donation Day, when participants try otodouble their daily word count and to make a contribution.
Read More NaNoWriMo update‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Could she be lost? Could she have turned west, toward God-knows-where, or even north toward Warrensburg?
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