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Original blog content from 2013 through mid-2016 — but ALWAYS relevant.
"I'll just hire an editor!"
A Few New Words-Contemptible, Averse, Hoodwink
A little more about THAT...
A Non-Valentine Valentine's Day Poem, Em Hodge
A PINK Hippo - WordHippo
A Review for RMJ MS LLC — This is 'HUGE'
A Writer's Tale - Bex Pavia, Poetry Corner
All of a sudden. All of the sudden... Huh? Suddenly.
All of vs All
Apostrophes in Time, Values, & Distance - Temporal Expressions
Appositives: Restrictive. Nonrestrictive. Commas.
Are you USED to the cold?
Begin again... - Flavia Quote
Best Seller or Best-seller
Capitalization in Titles
Colloquialism: Another THINK or THING Coming?
Colons, Semicolons, Ellipsis, Em Dash
Commas: One Cat or Two
Comma Rules - There are Many
Commas & Conjunctive Adverbs
Commas & Then - Q & A from CMoS
Commas & When to Use Them
Commas after 'so' ... yes or no?
Common & Proper Nouns (mom/Mom)
Contests! Awards!
Contractions
Coworker or co-worker
Daylight Savings? No. It's not a bank account.
Dialogue Tags, Adverbs, Stephen King
Doc vs Docx
Does Your Book Look Self-Published?
Don't Explain Every Drop - Singleton
Don't take it personal...
Don't Take the Easy Road - Unknown
Don't tell me... Anton Chekhov Quote
Dropbox-Get it NOW! - EXTRA
EDITORS: What's the difference & do you need one?
Editor & First Impression
Editorial Style vs Writing Style
Effective Dialogue
Everything is Writable - Plath Quote
EXTRA: Celebrity Names in Fiction
EXTRA: Words to Watch For...
Focus - Discouraged Quote
Formatting Professionally
Formatting with Styles
Formatting
Gifts of eBooks & Stealing
Hire a Credible Editor
Holidays & Apostrophes
Homophones. Say what?
Hyphen - En Dash - Em Dash
Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes
I Hear Her Laughter, E.M. Hodge, Poetry Corner
i.e. or e.g. - In other words or For example
I'm all right, you're all right. We're not alright.
I have a sentence—or is it a question?—where...
Indirect Questions & Punctuation
Ink Surrounds - Terri Guillemets Quote
It's what I do...
Italics or Quotation Marks: Song Titles & More
Journaling: Benefits and Tips
Just Breathe...or Take a Breath
Kansas Dreams, by Kieran York, Poetry Corner
Kill Them Now - D. Parker Quote
Kiss Time, Kieran YorK, Poetry Corner
Legacy of Man - Bex Pavia, Poetry Corner
Let's have a LAUGH with GRAMMAR
Life Happens
Manuscript Backup! Back them up... often!
Marketing - Make it Public
Military Ranks & Capitalization
More on Punctuation in Dialogue
More words than he needs - Dr Seuss
MS Office Versions-URGENT
Mastering Your Craft — Writing or Editing
Nerve Racking & Wreak Havoc
Nicknames & Terms of Endearment
No crap - S.M. Blooding Quote
Note of Encouragement
Off of - alot - alright - anyways
OK or okay
Other Side of the Window - Gina Brizendine
Oxford Comma / Serial Comma
Passengers, by Kieran York - Poetry Corner
Peak, Peek, Pique
Phase or Fazed
Plead, Pleaded, Pleas, Pled
Possessive & the Apostrophe
Pre-Editing Tips
Preparing Manuscript for the Editor
Prescribe/Proscribe, Vein, Rain, Weather
Proofreader, Copy/Line or Content Editor
Proofreaders: Yes, we have them!
Punctuating Dialogue
Punctuation When Speaking... Russell Baker Quote
Punctuating Dialogue. Long Blocks of Speaking.
Q&A - CMoS - 'the States', Expletives, Make or Makes
Quotation Marks - Single, Double, or None
Redundancies In Your Writing
Reflexive Pronouns - Let's Reflect...
Reviews, References, and Referrals
Roller Coaster - Lisa Fisher, Poetry Corner
Rules, Styles, Personal Choice
Self-doubt - Silvia Plath Quote
Semicolon - Kurt Vonnegut Quote
Sharing & Supporting Authors
Steps to Publishing
Steps to Publishing - Step One
Steps to Publishing - Step Two
Steps to Publishing - Step Three
Steps to Publishing - Step Four
Steps to Publishing - Steps Five
Style Guides, Dictionaries, and more
Style or Rules - Style Guides
Style: Writing & Editorial
Subjunctive Mood - What if?
Submission Guidelines
Success - Maya Angelou Quote
Supersede, not Large Seeds
Tell Me (How to Write) A Story, EJ Runyon
There Are Days... Editor Cat
Thick Hide - Harper Lee Quote
Threatening to Splinter, by Mary Bracken
Tighten Up Your Writing (or Remove Useless Words)
To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate? That is the question.
Top 10 Grammar Myths - Grammar Girl Debunks the Myths
The ART of Editing...
TIPSY Today All-Genre Book Promotion on Facebook
Twenty-four seven or 24/7 in fiction?
Used To & Use To
Vocative Case - Commas & Names
Wake Up Call, Mary Margaret Perry, Poetry Corner
What is a Copy Editor?
Whiskey vs Whisky
Who? Whom? Whose? Say what?
Words - Innocent - Hawthorne Quote
Words & Spell Check
Words Are Powerful - Hawthorne Quote
Write to Communicate - Fire thru Smoke
Write Well - Walt Disney Quote
Writing a Book is Horrible - Orwell Quote
Writing Dialogue with Tension
Writing, Revising, & Underwear
You, wordy? Nah. Writing Blurbs-the Long & Short.
What IS and What is NOT a Dialogue Tag
When Quoting a Quote, can we change said Quote?
Yay vs Yeah vs Yea
You & Me or You & I?
You do'nt have to get it right the first time...Quote
Your Masterpiece, EJ Runyon, Poetry Corner
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