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DIY Editing: A comma conundrum
Behold the comma: it’s the most dreaded of punctuation marks, and one of the most misused and abused. And for good reason. In the English language, most punctuation marks have no more than two or three uses. A period will always either end a sentence or abbreviate a word. An exclamation point indicates excitement. Commas, Read more
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Adventures with Scrivener
Until now, I’ve only really used a few features of Scrivener: the goal and wordcount feature, the folders, the ‘split at section’ command, and occasionally the research file. This time I’m trying something different. I wrote the whole of this draft in Microsoft Word. Because I wasn’t using any features aside from the wordcount and the putting-text-on-white-space Read more
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Kindar’s Cure Cover Reveal
Michelle Huack has asked me to host her cover reveal for her upcoming epic fantasy, Kindar’s Cure, which will be hitting the shelves soon! I got a special sneak preview of the story earlier this year, and I can’t say this enough: read it. This is a world that’ll swallow you whole, full of characters Read more
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Opinion post: Trilogies
Most of the time I try to keep my blog about semi-professional-sounding stuff. Namely the craft of writing. But that’s burnout for me and I don’t think it gives nearly enough content to you, so I’m going to try something a little bit different. On Saturdays I’ll be posting more personal stuff– mostly opinions and Read more
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DIY Editing: Whose line is it, anyway?
If you want the basics of punctuation, check out these guys here: Mr. Clements.com Bubblecow.net Fanfic.TheForce.net A step past the basics 1) Avoid using synonyms for said/asked, unless that synonym dramatically changes the meaning of the sentence. 2) British English uses single quotes (‘You’re a wizard, Harry!’) while American English uses double quotes: (“I can Read more
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Check it out!
Head on over and check out my guest post on Angie Sandro’s blog, Oh, The Things I’ve Learned. Read more
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