My name is Marjorie J McDonald and I have had the opportunity over the past years to teach creativity in writing. My online exercises for those who need to learn which area of writing they want to do can be found at http://www.freecreativewritingstrategies.com and for those who know your topic area are ready to begin writing [...]
Doublespeak is a common thing that needs attention when writing so you are communicating clearly and not using it maintains your trust with your reader. So what is doublespeak? Words that are deceptive, evasive, jargon, confusing or euphemistic. The deceptive word trap appears when you are using words that are not clean when explaining a [...]
Have you ever had someone in a relationship suddenly begin to act in unusual ways toward you without any explaination? Working backwords, you might be able to identify the roadsigns where the relationshiop went on the detour. Write that information down and give yourself an opportunity to see if you might be able to use [...]
Learning how to tap into your inner author is a skill that is easy to learn. I’m Marjorie J McDonald and I teach people just like you how to write the articles, book(s) and ebooks you have always wanted to write and do that in the language patterns and levels that your reader can easily and [...]
Traditional resolutions as you go into any new year have us pointed in the wrong direction-looking back. For today-let’s look forward instead to what you might be wanting to realize and set the stage for this by prefacing the specifics of what you want to see with one of these following “launch pad” statements. “It would [...]