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Author: Ann Gordon

A former English and Computer Science teacher, a technical writer, copy editor and instructional designer. She has a B.A. in English and a Masters in Computer Science. She’s currently semi-retired. Ann has written and published short stories and lots of articles, along with plenty of technical docs. She has also co-authored and/or copy-edited six historical fiction books, self-published on Amazon, and she is a webmaster for five websites. She’s won writing awards in most categories, including flash fiction. She wrote her first stories in elementary school and continued writing fiction until she was twenty, when she had to stop writing to make a living and raise a family. She’s been a member of RMFW for years and attends the Western Slope meetings when she can. She is president of the online chapter of the League of Utah Writers; her chapter has a large critique group. She lives in a dusty, windy desert town in SE Utah.
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Classy Intensifiers

Posted on November 15, 2023February 1, 2024 by Ann Gordon

According to recent reports, the English language contains over 470,000 words. Compared to other languages, that’s a whole lot of words (many of which we borrowed from other languages, that’s true). According to my limited research, the average 10-year-old has a vocabulary of about 10,000 words. And as reported by The Economist magazine, their online…

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My Grievance with GOT

Posted on October 10, 2023February 1, 2024 by Ann Gordon

“The word “got” is simply abysmal…”

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Trying NaNoWriMo, Again

Posted on September 13, 2023February 1, 2024 by Ann Gordon

I would very much like to finish, edit, and publish a novel in the coming year.  In between writing and publishing flash stories, short stories, creative nonfiction, and teaching modules, I’ve been working on two novel-length stories. Truth be told, ‘working on them’ is a misnomer as I have continued to edit or expound upon…

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Book Spine Adventures

Posted on July 11, 2023February 1, 2024 by Ann Gordon

A while back I helped a colleague self-publish his books so he could proudly place all six of them on the bookshelves of friends and family. We had already self-published these historical books for the digital market, but – like most authors – he wanted to own and distribute a number of physical copies. He…

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Third Person Omniscient vs Head Hopping

Posted on June 13, 2023February 1, 2024 by Ann Gordon

Recently I’ve found myself in a quandary about critiquing another writer for the ‘head hopping’ error. I mean, what actually constitutes head hopping?  

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