Denise D. Young

Wild Magic. Wild Stories. Wild Souls.

Recommend your “Autumn Read” and enter for a chance to win an Amazon gift card

September 23, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

As I’ve said before on my blog, I am totally a summer child. Lounging by the pool, going to the beach, picnics, walks in the park, that’s definitely my scene. And winter in the mountains, even as far south as Virginia, can be pretty damn chilly. Winter—not so much. But fall holds a special place […]

3 weak sentence constructs to avoid in our writing

August 8, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

As writers, everything we read and write develops our ear and eye. We learn how good writing sounds, how it leaps off the page, how it sends a thrill or a chill through us. A good line has bite. And we develop an eye—an eye for glaring spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors, so that those, […]