Here's the next series! Tenses! I'm thinking four posts in this one, at least for the main four things people...
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–rearranging
I realize that this post is going to be short, as it should be pretty self-explanatory. However, next week I will be...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–Em dash
Use an Em dash An Em dash will strongly connect the two independent clauses. Em dashes to resolve comma splices are...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–new sentence
C. Start a new sentence Starting a new sentence when encountering a comma splice will put more emphasis in both...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–Semi-colon
A semi-colon is used as a way to separate the two independent clauses more than just a comma and coordinating...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA SPLICE–coordinating conjunction
Our new grammatical issue to look at, for the next five weeks or so, is the comma splice. Are you ready? This one has...
Grammar Wednesday: COMMA–sequence of events/lists
Welcome! Guess what?! This is the last week on commas! Oh my! Unless someone really doesn't understand one of the...