Writing poetry for enjoyment as well as publishing it for the world to see might serve as a great way of testing your writing skills in a new environment and sharing your personal experiences and observations with others. However, the field of poetry is an industry of its own, and writing poems for your own … Read more
Recently, I’ve been editing for magazines, and my mentor—publisher Cedric D. Fisher—and I are presenting a workshop for writers, especially those interested in magazine writing. If you’re in the San Antonio area and interested in writing, I hope you’ll join us. The information follows. INFLUENCE MAGAZINE PRESENTS: WRITERS WORKSHOP Some say writing for a magazine … Read more
After reading my last post about random capitalization, a friend asked me on Facebook to write about apostrophes. Since the apostrophe is such an abused punctuation mark, I agreed. How can the apostrophe be both ubiquitous (everywhere) and elusive (hard to find)? The apostrophe, if not exactly ubiquitous, certainly shows up in many places it … Read more
As an editor, I encounter the same problems over and over again, regardless of the genre or the writer. One persistent problem is random capitalization. Although this is common from writers of all kinds, I find it most often in business writing. I think it’s part of many corporate cultures, and the people who see … Read more