I can hear your eyes rolling. “Manuscript formatting? Great, here he goes again…” Dinking around with MS Word styles is like watching paint dry, I get it. So rather than foam at the mouth yet again about how to properly format and structure your Word doc, I’m going to hand you a shiny golden Easter […]

As a writer, Microsoft Word can be your best friend or your biggest irritation. I received a large number of writing samples recently, and in reviewing them it became clear that some of these otherwise talented writers were struggling with basic manuscript formatting in Word. I started to write a series of long-winded posts […]

I found myself in a curious position this week. My writing partner and I are expanding our fiction critique group, and as part of that I posted an announcement in the weekly email blast by Willamette Writers, our local writing association. No sooner had the announcement run than writing samples from eager group participants began […]