Editorial Inspirations

Most writers have received rejection letters. Write a rejection letter to a rejection letter, explaining why you find the writing piece unsatisfactory.

Be sure to share your responses!

I wake at 6:30 on most mornings. Quickly, I prepare for a day of work, and I am in my car by 7. My goal is to be at work by 8, but it does not always happen, though I only live 25 miles away.

Each day is long. It seems to never end, but somehow it finally does. Then I lug my worn body back into my car for the hour and one-half commute back home.

At home I continue to work. I freelance write and edit for several clients. Evenings and weekends—the work never ends.

I probably could afford to freelance fulltime, but I am afraid about not having health insurance nor a steady income. I know there are options, but the what ifs scare me. Maybe some day I will take the plunge. Maybe some day I will work only nine to five.

Probably not. An eight-hour workday is not a luxury I can afford.

Barnes & Noble has unveiled a new section of its website, Barnes & Noble Studio, which will collect original content on books, readers, and writers and showcase web video series and other multimedia content.

The Studio debuted with two web video series, Barnes & Noble Tagged! and Book Obsessed. Tagged! is a magazine-style weekly web series hosted by actress Molly Pesce where. Among the books Pesce highlights in the first program are Jodi Picoult’s Change of Heart, Linda Fairstein’s Killer Heat, and Jeffrey Archer’s A Prison Diary. The other video, Book Obsessed, interviews readers around the country who are passionate about books.

In addition to featuring the two new videos, Barnes & Noble studio will also give visitors to the site another way to access other web content the company has already created and launched, including Upstairs At the Square, Live from B&N, and Barnes & Noble Book Clubs.

A sentence fragment is a group of words beginning with a capital letter and ending with a period but missing at least one of the following elements: a subject, a verb, or a complete thought. Though a sentence fragment is written as a sentence, it is only part of one.

One way to check for sentence fragments is to read each group of words written as a sentence, making sure that it contains at least one subject and one predicate and a complete thought.

Try It!

Look at the groups of words below. Decide is they are sentences or sentence fragments. If they are sentence fragments, determine what is missing and revise it to make a complete sentence.

1. Bill always playing in the yard on the weekends.
2. When Sally tried to change my mind.
3. For example, the plastic bottle with a green label.
4. Which helped to reduce the pain from the subburn.
5. Water sparkling in the moonlight.