Colleen Oakley, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/colleenoakley/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:55:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 5 Writing Rules We Break! http://booksbywomen.org/5-writing-rules-we-break/ http://booksbywomen.org/5-writing-rules-we-break/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:17:10 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12413 Rules schmules! Call us rebellious, but when it comes to writing, we think some rules were made to be broken. Never start a sentence with a conjunction. So I have impeccable grammar, if I do say so myself. The basics, I like to proudly declare, I’ve pretty much got down. It’s versus its. There, their […]

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