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

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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 [...]

Are You a Serial Killer? Five out of Ten Experts Agree . . . or Disagree

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Hello to everyone out there in WG2E land. I thought I would drop one more post about commas on you before moving on to greener and less cringe-inducing pastures. This one is a real hum-dinger. I avoided it as long as I could. Much blood has been spilled over this question. Well, maybe not blood [...]

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 [...]

The Tense Monster

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In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to start concentrating on issues that I’ve run into while editing. I think the one that I should start with is…the evil Tense Monster. This is, without question, the one issue that I deal with more on a daily basis than any other. The majority of the [...]