We nearly came to blows…over a comma?
My son and I had it out the other day. I don’t remember which of us began yelling first, but what started as an innocent conversation took less than a minute to escalate to an all-out screaming match....
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Apostrophe Abuse: It … must … stop!
This week we’re talking about the much-maligned apostrophe, a mark of punctuation that has been incorrectly used by so many in American pop culture over the past few years (maybe even the past decade)...
View ArticleTypo-rage: Get a grip, people! It’s a typo!
If there’s one thing that gets grammar snobs going, aside from serial commas and apostrophe abuse, it’s sloppy proofreading or errors, especially in publications that are supposed to have been...
View ArticleVoice – love me, love me not!
I’ve been commenting these past few weeks about a writer’s voice – the qualities that (in my opinion) make a voice strong or unique. While we work hard to define and refine our voices, it’s also...
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The written form of English is . . . weird
I spent the bulk of the past weekend proofreading, a task that made me not only question every grammar rule I’ve ever learned, but my own sanity. Maybe the cause was my backwards reading, from back to...
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Opening lines….Hook your reader immediately by Alicia Dean
In today’s society, modern conveniences have spoiled us to instant gratification. We live in a rush, rush world and have little time or patience for waiting…for anything. For me, back when I was...
View ArticleMother stories go for the gut
In my last post, I argued that in the ultimate show-down between writing and story, the story wins the prize as the more vital component of story-telling. It is the story, after all, that interests...
View ArticleCall for submissions!
Edward Allen Publishing is on the prowl for Halloween-themed stories to include in an anthology to be published in the fall of 2015! The completed anthology will be distributed in eBook and POD...
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Craft Monday: Beware the “ing”s!
When I first started writing fiction, I happened upon a writing tutorial that admonished to never, never, never start a sentence with an “ing” word. That bugged me, since one of my big rules is to mix...
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