If you’ve ever attempted to write Canadian characters into some prose and you’re not a native Canadian speaker, you may need to study up some. Otherwise, your character is going to end up sounding like a parody of Bob and…
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From many decades of creative and commercial writing experience, find posts on writing, editing, style, grammar and related topics of interest to writers. Anyone’s free to give the category a read, of course, but most of this is straight-up “if you don’t write, it probably isn’t going to interest you much” stuff. Just sayin’.
So you want to be a freelance writer… You decided. You’re going to do it. You’ve toiled away at your outside job and pecked at your writing when time allows. But lately? You’ve chafed at the lack of creative forward…
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Misused Phrases, Take 2 It does so irk me when people get idioms, adages, and expressions wrong. Is it just me? Am I overly pedantic? It’s been more than half a year since I scratched out the first list. During…
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Targeted Editing – Editing for Awesomeness – Part 3 Once more, here’s our areas to focus on with our targeted editing. This list covers most of the bases, so do make use of it in a way that makes the…
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Targeted Editing – Editing For Awesomeness – Part 2 Again, here’s your focus list for your targeted editing. I’ve broken it out here by association, but feel free to make use of the list in the order that makes the…
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A targeted editing approach to your writing may be your best route to achieving your end goal of making someone want to buy it. At some point, you’re going to get to the end of whatever you’re writing and will…
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Archaic grammar, what a pain in the butt to write when you’re not well-versed. Even when you are, it’s easy to get lost in modern vernacular and get it wrong. And I so hate getting things wrong. I have a…
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Random facts? Totally love them! They help me kill at Trivial Pursuit. I can’t take credit for any of these ones, though, just picked them up from a collection of places to share with everyone. And that I overlooked jotting…
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Aim to Write in Active Voice Knowing the difference between active voice and passive voice is often a tough one for beginning writers. I spend a lot of time editing passive voice out of other people’s writing and remain mindful…
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Wrong pronunciation can lead to incorrect spelling The way words are pronounced doesn’t always correlate to the way they’re written. What I mean by that is, just because you hear a word pronounced one way, doesn’t mean you should spell…
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