Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, and More: A Primer
Whether it's called a style book, style guide, manual, or handbook, the purpose of such books is to provide a set of standards for the...
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Trish Lockard
- Mar 4, 2019
- 3 min
Publishing in 2019--What to Expect
The sales data in traditional publishing for 2018 pointed to some surprising trends. If you want to know what the industry is looking for...
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Trish Lockard
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
Writing Sensory Description, Part 2
So in my last blog post, I discussed how, often, writers neglect sensory descriptive language in their work. Keeping in mind that we have...
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Trish Lockard
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
Writing Sensory Description, Part 1
Most requests for my editing services have been for novels and short stories, and to critique personal essays. The personal essay, which...
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Trish Lockard
- Dec 21, 2018
- 3 min
Even George R. R. Martin Needs An Editor
Writing is a craft. You cannot learn a craft and become proficient at it without doing it again and again. I will now make a...
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Trish Lockard
- Nov 19, 2018
- 1 min
My November Guest Blog Post on NAMI.org
Once again, I am proud to have an article posted on the website of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). This one is my...
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Trish Lockard
- Nov 15, 2018
- 4 min
Plagiarize versus Paraphrase, Part 2
UPDATE 1/8/21 To assure that you don’t plagiarize in your writing, all you need to do is change the order of the words or substitute a...
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Trish Lockard
- Oct 16, 2018
- 4 min
Plagiarize versus Paraphrase, Part 1
UPDATED 1/8/2021 If you are a writer, chances are good you are also a reader. I’m not trying to be funny. I mean that most writers are...
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Trish Lockard
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
My Guest Blog on Life at the Intersection
I am proud to have a guest blog article published on the website Life at the Intersection, the brainchild of psychologist and author...
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Trish Lockard
- Aug 7, 2018
- 1 min
My Guest Blog on NAMI.org
I am proud to have a guest blog article published on the website for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Visit here to read my...
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