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Kris Spisak knows that well-written words and well-told stories have the ability to change the world. A graduate of the College of William and Mary (B.A.) and the University of Richmond (M.L.A.), Kris wrote her first three books — Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017; HarperCollins India 2020), The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks and Tips for Revising Your Fiction Manuscript (Davro Press, 2020), and The Family Story Workbook: 105 Prompts & Pointers for Writing Your History (Davro Press, 2020) — to help writers of all kinds sharpen their storytelling and empower their communications. Her Grammartopia® events and Story Stop Tour programs follow the same mission. Her a ...more

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Writing Tip 448: “Statue of limitations” vs. “Statute of limitations”

Here is one kind of statue of limitations, but my guess is that this isn’t what you meant.

I imagine a woman of stone with her arms crossed and her wide stance as unyielding as her disposition. Is this what a statue of limitations would look like? A force blocking your way? Or perhaps something headless, limited herself.

Whatever you may imagine for this phrase, keep this in mind: you need to imagin

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	Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods by Kris Spisak (Goodreads Author), GennaRose Nethercott (Goodreads Author) (foreword), Davezilla (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 452 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Baba Yaga Mask 3.55 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused 4.41 avg rating — 69 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks & Tips for Revising Your Fiction Manuscript 4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family Story Workbook: 105 Prompts & Pointers for Writing Your History 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alright? Not All Right: 100 Writing Tips for the Curious or Confused 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James River Writers Essential Guide to Writers Conferences by Lana Krumwiede (Goodreads Author), Kris Spisak (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Earlier still, woodblock prints known as lubki, popular in the 1600s and 1700s, are our earliest known confirmed representations of her. These decorations, originally fashioned from the carve-able layer of wood under the bark of linden trees, hung in the households of those who could not afford more expensive icons.”
― Kris Spisak, Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

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“Some speak of witches like brutes who go bump in the night, yet some tales are much bigger than a single fright. In fact, some famous witches arguably aren't witches at all. They are merely characters so difficult to define that no better word describes them. So, witches they become, and they are branded in the public mind ever after.”
― Kris Spisak, Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

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“Truman Capote once said, “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
― Kris Spisak, Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused

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