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Grammar Wednesday: TENSES — past tense
Hey ya'll! This is my preferred tense to write in. I love it! To me, even when speaking, stories are told in the past...
Grammar Wednesday: TENSES — Present tense
Here's the next series! Tenses! I'm thinking four posts in this one, at least for the main four things people...
Grammar Wednesday: Pet Peeves and Americanisms
It is not OK. It is okay. ** It is not alright. It is all right. *** It is not wanna, gonna, coulda, shoulda, woulda....
Grammar Wednesday: POV–3rd Person Omniscient
So, you thought you were done with the last post? You're not. There is one more. This person is slowly becoming more...
Grammar Wednesday: POV–3rd person
Third person is my favorite person to write in. I have to say, I absolutely love and adore it. Recently people have...
Grammar Wednesday: POV–2nd Person
This is the type of person or POV that you will find the least of. It's also, in my opinion, the hardest to write and...
The wondrous world of editing
I've been seeing a lot of posts on facebook, twitter, goodreads and more about editing and the editing process. I'm...
WIPpet Wednesday: June 5th, 2013
Good morning! Guess what! Tomorrow is my birthday, so you're getting something extra special today. I'm currently...
Grammar Wednesday: POV–1st person
I've decide the next group of grammar goodness will be about persons in writing. There are typically 3 persons, 1st,...
Dying Embers: Take Two
I can't tell you how nervous I still get when emailing my publisher (or the fact that half the time I'm still in...
Grammar Wednesday: the “U” and the “A”
This is a common mistake that I find with my copy-editing, and it has to do with tenses, which I will eventually...
Grammar Wednesday: ACTIVE PHRASING
Hello everyone! I know some of you were sad that I missed last week's Grammar Wednesday, but I didn't miss it. I was...
Beta-reading
Today I am working on editing. And not my own stuff. I finished up a Twilight fanfic (yes, I beta it...no I do not...
Grammar Wednesday: Spelling and Grammar errors–mental_floss
So...since it is finals week for me, and I am still working like mad on this queer migration paper. This is your...
Fanfic mistakes and pleasures
My time for writing originals is certainly not over, but I have been working on fanfiction, toying with the plots...
Grammar Wednesday: Quoting a quote
I was writing, and I had a question. This is how I typically come up with finding grammatical rules to remember for...
Paving the way…
I am paving the way toward professionalism in this little world called writing. Yesterday, I was awarded (it's a...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–finding them!
I thought I would make a post on how to find comma splices. They're not exactly the easiest thing in the world to...
Finish Line
I can see it. Almost taste the joy of crossing that line and being done with the first major round of editing on this...