I am currently in the process of migrating the content of The Blue Rose Bouquet online magazine from BlueRoses.com to its new home on BlueRoseBouquet.com. Now that the archives for the Writing Woes comic strip have been moved, I’m starting with the oldest short stories, humor, essays, and articles in The Blue Rose Bouquet archives and working my way forward.
During this transition, the Home page for The Blue Rose Bouquet will remain on BlueRoses.com. Any page that has been migrated to BlueRoseBouquet.com automatically (and conveniently) will update to its new location; however, you will need to use the back button to navigate to the links for some of the existing pages.
In the meantime, I continue to dream of that Someday™ when I’ll have a staff to help me with all of my housekeeping chores.
Writing, like anything else worthwhile in life, takes discipline, instruction, and most of all, confidence in your ability to do a good job. You gain that all-important confidence through practice-and by studying samples of other works. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
Different types of writing each require a different approach. Writing and communication guides are a valuable learning asset because the examples found on those pages can show you the best ways to get things down on paper.
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