For those of you just joining us don’t forget to visit Day 1 & 2.
Did you enter Beverly’s awesome giveaway. If you didn’t, go now we will wait… Ok, now for day 3.
Every day this week I will have a giveaway here on my site. Also I will be highlighting a new blogger and she will be hosting a giveaway on her site! So you have the opportunity to enter two giveaways. That is at least two chances to win.
_______________________________________________________
CWO’s Editor Darlene Schacht has been my Miyagi (Karate Kid 1984) when it comes to writing. You probably already know her, read her and we hope visit her monthly online magazine.
Personally, I would not be blogging if it were not for her. I write because she saw something in me, something that in my wildest dreams I never saw in myself. Do I call myself a writer now? NO. But I have confidence—while under her direction—to keep pecking at these keys. Darlene has a wonderful new website titled Writing FUNdamentals. I love this new blog and have already implemented some of her lessons into my writings. Head on over to her new site and check it out. Then come back for my giveaway.
___________________________________________________________________
For my giveaway on day 3, I wanted to give you two of my favorite books. I will be reviewing “Living the Lord’s Prayer” for CWO’s Book Buzz. This book has been one of the best devotional books I have read this year. David Timms, breaks down the Lord’s prayer phrase by phrase. And you may have already heard of Beth Moore’s book “Voices of the Faithful.” This book is filled with inspiring stories of Christians around the world.
Lastly I include a 20oz Pumpkin Pie scented candle. I have to tell you when I purchased this candle for the giveaway, I loved the smell so much I bought one for myself. (this is a picture of me filling my home with Pumpkin Pie delight!).
One reader will win the candle and two books. To enter this giveaway tell me one thing Darlene talks about in any of her posts on Writing Fundamental’s.
See you tomorrow for more giveaways tell your friends.
Just so you know those who read me in a feedreader or subscribed for my blog updates via email knew ahead of time what I was giving away. (on the feedreader it is at the very bottom of the post).
If you need the code for the button click here.
All proceeds go to charity! Order your copy today!
{ 67 comments }
← Previous Comments
The candle sounds yummy
Thank you so much for including me in this giveaway!!
Looks like I didn’t read the directions very carefully. Let me try this again.
Darlene talks about, “do not add a space before or after your en dash or hyphen.”
Thank you!!!
en and em hyphens! Thanks for the contest opportunity!
What an awesome blog!!!! It is filled with good stuff!
En dashes……and more!
Love the cool giveaway bag….
Thanks for the link there!
What a great blog. I am adding that one to my favorites. The entry I read was about hyphens, en dashes and more. Thanks for the chance to win such great prizes.
I thought her “take-away” segment was very true. I feel like most of the really good books, articles, or short stories I’ve read leave me with a message or a good feeling to “take-away”. Some are easier to see than others, however.
What a great giveaway, Laurel. I always wanted to have a “Voices of the Faithful” in my collection. “Living the Lord’s Payer” sound marvelous.
– I started at her first post in which Darlene is talking about ‘fluff’ in your writings.
Regarding Darlene’s new site – I think that it will be very helpful to me – I make many mistakes
Oh my. I would LOVE to win this giveaway! I’ve been looking for a great devotional, and I can never have enough good-smelling candles, especially FALL candles!
Darlene talked about en-dashes and em-dashes and repetition in writing.
I learned that this ~ is called a tilde not the squiggly dash!
I enjoyed reading the information about dashes!
Not repeating the same phrases/words over & over w/in a paragraph, which happens to be a pet peeve of mine, so woo-hoo for educating people about it LOL.
She shares a post about some great Writing Opportunities.
Brevity. Use as few words as possible.
Kids decluttering!
Wow! I never knew there were so many different kinds of dashes in existence! Darlene mentions em-dashes and en-dashes and tildes (aren’t’ they cute?) and shes tells us how they’re to be used!
And I loved her mention of the “Grammar for Dummies” book as well. I’ve been wanting to refresh my rather ancient & somewhat forgotten grammatical skills, and I think that book and her blog will do just that! Thank you for introducing Darlene Schacht to us!
Oh, and your giveaways/prizes are tons of fun! I’m enjoying meeting the new people you’re connecting us to – there’s a whole, wide world of people out there just waiting to meet each of us! Love it!
The Take Away Factor
← Previous Comments
Comments on this entry are closed.
{ 2 trackbacks }