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  • 10 Great Writing Tips for Fiction Writers

    10 Great Writing Tips for Fiction Writers

    April 17, 2024April 17, 2024

    Fiction writers, when in the throes of creativity and busily working away on their story, don’t want to interrupt “the…

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  • What Writers Need to Master Their Craft

    What Writers Need to Master Their Craft

    July 11, 2022February 6, 2024

    Many people want to write a great book, but they don’t want to get into the weeds with grammar, punctuation,…

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  • Want to Be a Great Writer? Then Don’t Neglect This!

    Want to Be a Great Writer? Then Don’t Neglect This!

    November 17, 2016

    For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at an excerpt from a previous post titled Do Writers Really Have to Learn All…

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  • Do Writers Really Have to Learn All That (Yucky) Grammar?

    Do Writers Really Have to Learn All That (Yucky) Grammar?

    February 24, 2014April 5, 2024

    In a word, yes. In two words: absolutely yes. I hear groans. I hear protests. You hated English Comp in…

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  • Each Writer Should Correct Their Own Grammar

    Each Writer Should Correct Their Own Grammar

    May 31, 2013

    Dreading to deal with the ubiquitous “their,” let’s just get it over with. It’s become so common for us to…

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  • Learning about Proper Adjectives in a New York Minute

    Learning about Proper Adjectives in a New York Minute

    January 11, 2013

    A “proper adjective” does not refer to a correct adjective in a sentence (because there often isn’t just one correct adjective)….

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  • Someone Has Their Pronouns Goofy

    Someone Has Their Pronouns Goofy

    December 14, 2012

    It’s sometimes hard to make sense of whether certain pronouns are singular or plural, so here are some helpful explanations….

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  • While Means Whereas . . . Sometimes

    While Means Whereas . . . Sometimes

    December 7, 2012

    We usually think of  while  to mean “during the time that,” but it can be used to mean “whereas.” In the…

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  • Some Extraneous Words That Clutter

    Some Extraneous Words That Clutter

    November 30, 2012

    I often find myself trimming down words when I do content edits for my clients. I’ve mentioned in earlier posts…

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