Trust Your Ear and Read Aloud – Joe Moran QUOTES FOR WRITERS
If you get the rhythm of your writing right, the other things tend to fall into place. Most people know the grammatical rules of writing more than they think they … Continue reading
To Hell With It All but only if…Colum MCann QUOTES FOR WRITERS
To hell with grammar, but only if you know the grammar first. To hell with formality, but only if you have learned what it means to be formal. To hell … Continue reading
Anthony Burgess on the bare bones of language QUOTES FOR WRITERS
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Anthony Burgess Image Credit: OpenClipart-Vectors from … Continue reading
How to write sound – putting an accent on the page
The way we use language differs depending on whether we are speaking it or writing it and that difference has to come across on the page. But what about how … Continue reading
8 Tips for Editing a Manuscript
Originally posted on Black Lilac Kitty Book Reviews:
A writer/author should make the manuscript the best it can be before sending it to the publisher. This goes for both traditional…
Test your knowledge of English…and weep
Which of the following is the “correct” plural of octopus? Which are acceptable variants? Which are “wrong”? octopuses octopi octopodes This old blog (the original post was written five years … Continue reading
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GALLEYCAT covers everything a writer or a reader might be remotely interested in: there’s publishing news with an American slant but with a decent international perspective, writers resources which at … Continue reading
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