I’m not a big fan of rant blog posts. They get old fast, especially when every blogger on the block is doing them. But problematic punctuation? Well, that pushes all my buttons. What can I say? I’m a writer. Three months ago, I wondered who the first person was who put an apostrophe in where…
Please give a warm welcome to Krissy Brady, the first guest blogger on the Cat’s Eye blog in 2012. I met Krissy when she began reading and commenting here. I checked out her blog and was impressed by the resources she so freely offers to writers. I encourage you to visit her blog. And if…
I hope you are finding time to refresh and rejuvenate this week between Christmas and New Year’s. I’ve been reading a lot, since Bob, Mr. WordPress, gave me the best Christmas present ever. It was better than the warm, fuzzy socks. Better even than the foaming bath oil and scented candle from L’Occitane. It was…
Writing your blog post is a lot of work. But it’s usually not the part that gives you the most grief. Your toughest task is coming up with the right title. Someone once said, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” But you know what? People do that all the time. Just go to…
In my tenth year of teaching, I learned a lesson that forever changed the way I look at people, their abilities and, in particular, my own capacity to produce great things. As a writer, I have revisited this discovery time and time again. For reasons unknown to me at the time, I was recruited to…
Where did it start? Who was the one who first put the apostrophe in where it didn’t belong? Was it some bartender who innocently printed Tequila Tuesday’s on the specials board one day? Or maybe it was the appliance store that advertised Used Refrigerator’s and Washing Machine’s.
On the CatsEyeWriter blog, professional editor and blogger A. Victoria Mixon offers excellent storytelling advice for business bloggers.
Last week, one of my favorite bloggers, Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz, threw out a simple question in her blog post, What Do YOU Do? The Un-Meme Redux. She made me think. I like that. Thinking is good. Naomi’s question was, “Do your readers understand your business?” A few days later, a new friend, pajama-wearing motivational…
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