Jan - I know your imput on FWs is invaluable to budding writers. Thank you for how you helped me, and I know others too.
Love you,
Col
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- Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:46 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7979
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:49 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winners for the ENDLESS Challenge
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9226
Re: Winners for the ENDLESS Challenge
Because you have spent so much time as a Moderator, when others have spent their time honing their writing skills for Challenge, I think you ought to be made an honorary 'Master', Shari.RedBaron wrote:Wow! I placed! (Does this mean I have to move up? It's not an EC lol.)
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:48 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29697
Re: Be a Better Writer--WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION?
Jan, I know we have been warned off from using clichés; I presume that is because they are not our own word creations, but is it permissible to use them in dialogue as a way of our everyday speaking? Why does it seem OK to use phrases from well known writers like Shakespeare, and others, when they a...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:46 pm
- Forum: FaithWriters Information/Announcements
- Topic: Rules for posting
- Replies: 41
- Views: 93011
Re: Rules for posting
Hi, Jill! Welcome, and I hope you enjoy being part of FWs.
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:31 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26944
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
Thanks for your comments Jan - you are very diplomatic, as I feel 2 of my examples may not have fallen strictly into allegory category but you must have been too kind to deflate my ego.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:58 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26944
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
Do you have anything else you'd like to add to this discussion? Just that I like writing allegories although I don't think I'm an expert. Maybe you can't remember this one: http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article-level3-previous.php?id=24998 or this: http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article-level2-pre...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:55 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26944
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLEGORY
When the Challenge topic was 'encouragement' I thought using the article linked below would cover a few aspects of what encouragement meant.
http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article- ... p?id=19510
http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article- ... p?id=19510
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:48 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 70346
Re: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
Did you also intentionally set aside meter? And if you did--why did you also choose to use end rhyme? Since you were flouting so many of the conventions of traditional poetry, why not just do an unrhymed free verse? Jan, I chose a free verse style because I thought it wouldn't have been accepted as...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:59 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 70346
Re: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
Jan, I did some of your poetry lessons and was surprised at all the different types and names for numbers of verses and lines etc. I was wondering if you were allowed to do your own experimenting and creating outside the set boxes using rhyming, or would it just be called free verse because it doesn...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 70346
Re: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
Hi Jan - I suppose that we UK writers stuck out like a sore thumb when you were judging. I did try using American spellings for a short while but Deb advised, in a general comment, that it was best to keep using UK spelling if you came from the UK. My concern was that the judges could easily tell ou...
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:42 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
- Replies: 66
- Views: 76803
Re: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
This article appeared in my paper this very day - because I don't know how to transfer it in full, I'll type a few relevant bits. Dictionary is rewritten - literally! It is a word that has been misused by so many that its definition has been changed - literally. The Oxford English Dictionary has rev...
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:32 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
- Replies: 66
- Views: 76803
Re: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
At one time, I used to use a check list when self editing my pieces for the Challenge. It included simply words to watch out for like: is and his, there and their, as and has, along with other things to check out. I knew about the different spellings for engaged couples, but not if they were both bl...
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:10 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
- Replies: 66
- Views: 76803
Re: Jan's New Writing Lessons -- COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS
Jan, we from the UK spell lots of words differently to you in the USA. Quite often we use two consonants where you from the USA use one. I think we have a rule that if a vowel follows a word ending in a consonant then the word-ending consonant doubles up e.g. swimming, parallelled, etc.
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:42 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Highest Rankings for EXAMPLE Challenge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3678
Re: Highest Rankings for EXAMPLE Challenge
Ditto Allison! When I showed gill my piece, she shrugged and said, "It's just OK!"Allison wrote:Wow. I'm honestly surprised to be anywhere on this list!
Did much bettter than expected.
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:57 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New Writing Lessons--FREE VERSE POETRY, #2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 33171
Re: Jan's New Writing Lessons--FREE VERSE POETRY
Jan, these are the first two verses of a free verse I wrote. Does this meet your criteria? stardom gained in the dullness of a starless night is elusive but to the few - yet still it hastens away for the capture of a name and fame is a lost hope - that takes its flight from most it avoids the eager ...