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Bedevilled by Details Part II: Beware of Overshare
Details are wonderful. They enliven your story, create characters that seem uncannily real, and generally make your fictional world go ’round. You can never have too many details … right? Continue reading
Bedevilled by Details Part I: Keeping It Straight
If your details are inconsistent, your story will lose credibility and your readers will start to lose interest. Additionally, it will take longer for your editor to help you find and clean up those details, so if you are paying for editorial services out of your own pocket, this may increase the costs to you. Continue reading
Ad Homonym
When you start to tally up the many ways there are to represent one sound, the more you realize just how remarkably flexible English is. Continue reading
The Limits of Intuition
As a child, I learned the rules of grammar and spelling, or at least I gained a significant intuitive understanding of them; as an adult, I was able to use this strong intuition to produce a lot of very clear, forceful, and persuasive essays during both my undergraduate and graduate studies. Clearly, I was quite adept at using the language effectively. What more did I need to know? Continue reading
The Tyranny of Words
It doesn’t really matter what you’re writing, whether it’s a brief news article, a short story, or a mammoth doctoral thesis — writing can be stress Continue reading
Quills and Queries Editing 