Creative Grammar

Hello SErs! Harmony here 🙂 Today, I wanted to talk about grammar and how we can use it creatively. The thing with grammar rules and conventions is that they are ever changing and things go in and out of vogue. Often, opinions differ as to what is and is not acceptable at any given time, …

Writing Excellence #AdminProfessionalsDay

Hello SErs! Happy Wednesday. Harmony here 🙂 ... Well, not quite ... I'm away until May 2nd, which I'll tell you about at the bottom of this post. Right now, I'm just pretending to be here!  🙂 In America, today is Administrative Professional's Day. The vision of the IAAP (International Association of Administrative Professionals) is: …

Judging a book by its cover

Hello SErs! Harmony here 🙂 I hope this finds you all well. Today, I wanted to move away from my usual focus on words and look at, instead, book covers. I have taken a liberty and used something I wrote for a magazine a while ago. I hope you'll bear with me both on the …

Lost in Translation

Hello, SErs! Harmony here 🙂 While working with an American editor the self-same week that my last post on Wicked Words went live, an amusing situation (word-wise) arose. It had to do with our uncommon common language between UK and US English. We think we're saying the same thing, when in fact ... Oh dear! …

4 Ways to Pack the Power of Scrivener into Your Series

Hello, Story Empire readers! Today, I'd like to cover a topic about Scrivener that may help a few of you out when you didn't know you needed help. A while back, I wrote on this blog about using Auto-complete and Keywords. Today, I'm going to expand on those tools in regard to developing a series …