Author: Eleanora E. Tate

     Writing in the June 7, 2012 issue of Writing-World.com editor Moira Allen asks us to think about whether writing is an “art” or a “craft”. Which is it? Or  is...

     We’re often told that the movie version of a book isn’t as good as the book itself. I tell you what — that’s certainly true when it comes to big mouths  yakking in the movie...

I guess I’m on a punctuation march. Last week it was the eclectic ellipsis. This time it’s the exclamation mark. Of course, we all know that it’s used to denote an exciting sentence. In children’s...

Do you incorporate the ellipsis in your manuscripts? I’ve seen this … three-dot punctuation mark in manuscripts for decades and each time it seems that the authors implanted it into their work for individual reasons. As I...

While in church on a recent Sunday, I listened to the words said by an assistant pastor. They reminded me of the well intentioned, ambitious but bloated YA manuscript that I’d been critiquing for the last month. When I’m in...