Taking My First Steps As An Author

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Hello to everyone out there in WG2E Land! Today’s post is about making a transition into another part of the e-pub world. As many of you have certainly figured out by now, I am David Slegg, D.D. Scott’s new co-author for the STUCK WITH A Series of serial novels. I should start out by saying [...]

“Hey! Mr. Element, Are You Essential to that Sentence?”

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For this post, I’m going to concentrate on a comma issue that can cause problems for writers. The rule I’m speaking of is the one that states nonessential elements should be separated from the rest of the sentence with commas before and after the element in question. Unlike most other comma issues, this one involves [...]

Of Commas and Clauses, and I’m Not Talkin’ Santa

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There was a request last time I posted for a comma related post. I was sitting around and suddenly had this brilliant idea. Of course! The best thing to write a post about would be. . .COMMAS! It simply isn’t possible to cover everything to do with commas in one little blog post, so I [...]

Making the Big Move

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Well, it’s all over… and just beginning. Last week, while D.D. Scott was stepping in to post in my time slot here on the WG2E (thanks again D.D.), I was loading and driving a U-Haul truck 1,000+ miles from Boston to Midwestern cattle country. So now, instead of sirens, I hear tree frogs, crickets and [...]

Confessions of a Literary Snob Turned Freelance Editor

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Hello to all of you out there in WG2E Land. I’m really happy to be contributing my first post to the site. For those of you who are not familiar with me, I’m Matthew Rush. I live in Boston and I’ve just completed my masters in Library/Information Science.  I’ve recently started freelance editing as The Edit [...]