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Rules Are Rules, or Are They?

To help us improve our craft of writing, we’ve all taken classes. Read many articles on the rules of grammar and writing. Listened to members of a critique group talk about writing rules. Which ones should we follow? What advice should we take to heart, or more precisely to keyboard? Answer: Take what works for you and discard the rest. Nothing is cast in stone. My writing workshops all begin with the disclaimer that I don’t know everything, and nothing that will be suggested is a “must.”  Again, take what works for you and discard the rest. That goes for this blog post, too.

Book Review: Jade's Blood

It is exciting times when two of my Ladyscribes have books coming out in the same month. The first is from my writing buddy Kat Huddleston who has just released her vampire paranormal fantasy novel Jade's Blood . I remember critiquing the very first draft, I knew it was going to be good because, like our buddy Rita Woods, Kat's first drafts are golden. She has written so many great short stories. High school history teacher Max Maguire didn't believe in vampires, until... When Max Maguire begins to suspect one of his brightest students is in trouble, he ends up walking down the wrong alley and suddenly he's on the menu for a beautiful, powerful and quite vicious vampire named Jade.