Month: October 2022

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DO YOU NEED A WORKSHOP?

That ad went out in March 2015, on a local FB group, and posted in 2 local Starbucks. The result was amazing, and from our first meeting in April of ’15 until I moved in January ’22, people came to my house every other Sunday, come rain, snow, sun, death, plague (we went on Zoom)….

Suffice it to say, I know how to help writers write, and how to run a decent workshop.

Why do you need a workshop?

Most of all, for the deadline, and the camaraderie. It’s a lonely business, writing.

So I’m gearing up to run some workshops in the new year, now that I’ve settled in on the west coast.

Could you use a workshop? Do you want to finish your damn novel?

Check out the dates, and if you don’t see what you want, there’s a contact form, where you can request it.

Live in the LA area and want something live and in person? You can request that too!

FIND A WORKSHOP

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HELP A GIRL OUT

Okay folks, I live in a new part of the world, without connections, and I need to earn some money.

I am not one to brag, but I am damn good at college app. essays, as I should be, because I’ve been helping HS students and college transfer students write them for 20 some years (am I that old?). I am fast, efficient, and trained! And I know the essay topics all colleges ask for, and the traits a student should reveal about him/herself in these essays.

So, if you know anyone who may be heading to college, or transferring from a 2-year to a 4-year school, please tell them about me. I can do the entire thing in a few hours, and I can do the whole thing in text messages, as many students prefer.

So, help a girl out, and pass the above flyer along.

Many many heartfelt thanks~

Dianne

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AND I QUOTE… THE QUOTATION

Recently I noticed something disturbing with the students that I have been working with, and that is a spate of assignments from their teachers that ask them to fill out a grid form with QUOTES from their sources.

*sigh*

C’mon people, who is proofreading these things?

Quote is a verb, as in TO QUOTE.

QUOTATION is a noun, as in this is a QUOTATION from John Lennon, “All you need is love.”

So, students and your teachers, you should not be filling your paper with QUOTES, you should be filling it with QUOTATIONS, and you shouldn’t be doing that in any case, because you should be paraphrasing, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Grammar pet peeve of the day.

I’m not perfect; I make mistakes too, and I seldom see my own errors, which is why everyone needs editing, but among a college full of English teachers, many with PhDs, somebody should be giving their course materials a proofread. Write once; edit twice.

That is all.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled good day. 😉

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HELP A GIRL OUT

Okay folks, I live in a new part of the world, without connections, and I need to earn some money.

I am not one to brag, but I am damn good at college app. essays, as I should be, because I’ve been helping HS students and college transfer students write them for 20 some years (am I that old?). I am fast, efficient, and trained! And I know the essay topics all colleges ask for, and the traits a student should reveal about him/herself in these essays.

So, if you know anyone who may be heading to college, or transferring from a 2-year to a 4-year school, please tell them about me. I can do the entire thing in a few hours, and I can do the whole thing in text messages, as many students prefer.

So, help a girl out, and pass the above flyer along.

Many many heartfelt thanks~

Dianne

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LAST YEAR I CAME IN LAST PLACE… & FIRST

I was literally the slowest thing going when I ran this race last year. But I won one of the first place medals anyway, because I was the lone soul in my age group! That’s how I getter done.

This year I think I’m faster, and though I shuffle less while running. I still get very very red in the face.

You can register and run this race, or just donate the fee and stay in bed, then you can outpace everyone, in your dreams.

The Mispillion Art League is in a place in the world where there are few artistic outlets for kids, if any, and even less tolerance for the artistic or different. Help the Art League help kids and anyone with an artistic nature. We have to make resources available for the gentle as well as the strong.