This short article is designed to show how different two editors can be. As described in my article “My best day,” my friends Paula Shene and Gwen Steel told me of Angie’s DIARY. At this time I was trying to get an article in a magazine called Indies Unlimited. I sent the article in question [...]
The Process of choosing an Editor - Unless you’re an editor yourself, chances are you’ll need to have a relationship with a professional, who can help you to be certain that you cross your t’s, dot your I’s, that your grammar and punctuation are top notch, and that your writing is clearly expressing all that you [...]
What? Nouns of direct address? Was that the name of an ‘80s rock group? Perhaps—but it more widely refers to an oft-ignored rule for the use of the comma. Care should be taken with all punctuation, but perhaps commas can be the most subtle and slippery of all. Care? Judiciousness with their uses? Oscar Wilde [...]
A writer should understand to a point where it is second nature that writing a piece of fiction is the art of simulating everyday language…
