Blog How to handle cultural issues in creative writing by Bobbie Christmas Q: In light of racial and LGBTQ issues, various terminology is changing to more sensitive language, avoiding words and phrases such as…Bobbie ChristmasOctober 5, 2020
Blog Find Your Fresh Voice ©2020 Bobbie Christmas Agents and publishers say they want manuscripts with a fresh voice. What the heck is a fresh voice, and how can you…Bobbie ChristmasSeptember 8, 2020
Blog On My Editing High Horse I’m not a grammarian, a teacher of grammar. I’m merely an editor who has to deal with grammar issues daily. As such I feel that…Bobbie ChristmasJuly 31, 2020
Blog Starting Over I spent all day recently rewriting from memory a children's story I had written years ago, because I could not find it on any of…Bobbie ChristmasMay 11, 2019
BlogconferenceCreative WritingHumorWriting LIFE AS MATERIAL LIFE AS MATERIAL My sister and I recently drove to Altamonte Springs, Florida, where I gave several workshops and many interviews at the Florida…Bobbie ChristmasNovember 14, 2018
Creative WritingGrammarHumorWriting HUMOR FOR GRAMMARIANS A few weeks ago I saw a funny list of items related to writing. I’d seen it before, but this time I decided to share…Bobbie ChristmasAugust 12, 2018
BlogCreative WritingGrammarWriting No More Me and . . . As an editor you can probably find grammar errors in anything you read, yet are errors in grammar coming out of your mouth when you…Bobbie ChristmasJuly 25, 2018
Blog My Take on (some of) the Oscars I watched a foreign film last night titled The Square. It is up for an Oscar for best foreign film, and although lately the foreign…Bobbie ChristmasFebruary 25, 2018
Blog Circle of Life About a month ago I noticed a Krispy Kreme store being built only three miles from my house. Yay! It wasn’t opened yet, though. Boo!…Bobbie ChristmasDecember 6, 2017
Blog Pharmaceutical Fiasco Writers write. What do we write about? With nonfiction writers like me, every bump in the road, every event in our lives, feels as though it…Bobbie ChristmasAugust 21, 2017