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I used an exclamation mark in a LinkedIn post last month. And oh. My. Lanta. The people of LinkedIn were not happy. I love that writers feel so strongly about punctuation marks. As an editor and writer myself, it makes my heart hum when people discuss exclamation marks, em dashes, and semicolons with passion. But what makes me sad are all the unnecessary rules and judgments we writers can sometimes add to these very innocent punctuation marks. I've heard it said before that s

A couple of months ago, I read about an experience an aspiring author had with an editor, and boy, was I disappointed. She said she’d received her manuscript back from her editor, and the comments were just straight-up mean. Every single one was insulting, so much so that she dreaded reading them. She used words like disheartening and disrespectful and discouraged. It’s experiences like this that make writers nervous about trusting their “babies” (their stories, that is) with

I’ve been thinking a lot about voice lately. I mentioned last month that I used to do some copywriting back in the day. While I didn’t love  writing marketing and salesy content, I can say one thing copywriting taught me is how to match voice. What many people don’t realize is that copywriting requires quite a bit of research. Not only do you have to learn what a company or brand offers, but you also have to dig into their preexisting content so that what you write actually s

Many, many moons ago, I used to write. I wrote poetry and plays and short stories and all of the fun things I could think of. Then, I started copywriting and ghostwriting, and writing just for fun slowly became a thing of the past. Now, I get to work with writers and help them tell their stories in the best way possible. But somewhere along the way, I realized I got away from my own writing. And my definition of "writing for fun" looks a lot different now...actually my whole