Hey, Look! A Post About Commas

comma_1-13

For my first post of 2013, I thought I’d cover an issue that I mentioned back in 2011.  I’m brining it up again because it seems to cause a lot of confusion out there in author land. I say that because it’s one of the things that I often run across. It’s the issue of [...]

Looking out for Sprawl

sprawl

Greetings, WG2E folks! Today, I’m going to talk about something that I see on occasion while editing. We’re all familiar with urban and suburban sprawl and some of the negative consequences that have followed as a result. There is a similar phenomenon that can crop up in our writing from time to time. I’m talking [...]

Don’t Let Secondary Characters Knockout Your Muses

BxGloves

I’m taking a break from posts dealing with punctuation to spend some time on content. This is a brief post about how secondary characters and subplots  can potentially steal the limelight from your protagonist and/or antagonist if you aren’t careful. Characters other than your primary protagonist/antagonist are there to move the plot along. Having extended [...]

When Spell Check is not Your Friend

spellcheck_full

As most of us know, spell check can’t read minds. We’ve probably all ran into situations where we’ve butchered the spelling of a word and spell check has suggested a word that is not the word you mean to include. If you are tired or distracted enough, you might just accept the suggestion and move [...]

An Editor (Begrudgingly) Recommends Turning Down the Volume of Your Inner Editor (Temporarily)

volume

One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve done more of my own writing over the past few months is the benefit of turning down the volume of my inner editor while you’re writing and having more than one pair of eyes going over what you’ve written even before it goes to your editor. I know many [...]