Tag: fiction
group name: grammarweasel
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December 28, 2008 11:12 PM EST --
Ok, here's a story, I submit to everyone. So, I can ask yet again, what it is that I am doing wrong. Out of all the stories in the contest, my entry got zero votes. The entries could only be from . . .
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July 29, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Here's a quick overview of the helpful articles on grammar and writing now available at The Grammar Weasel :
Dangling Participles (series of 2 articles)
Participial Phrases
Absolute . . .
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July 10, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
It was a dark and stormy night.
Uh-oh, that doesn't bode well for this article. For over a century that sentence has gained a reputation as the worst possible opening for a work of fiction. Charles . . .
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October 08, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
I am one of those people. The ones that are constantly crying; pain, joy, sorrow, happiness, it doesn’t really seem to matter. Emotion = overflowing tear ducts. Now, there is one advantage, . . .
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November 21, 2008 03:05 AM EST --
I'm reading the discussion from last week at No whine, Just Champage group - reading it right at this moment, and put it a bit on hold to write this down - and while scrolling and hungrily . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:30 AM EST --
Working on ideas by myself is all well and good, but I know I do much better when I have some feedback from others to push me along. I love it when people pose questions for me to answer, it really gets . . .
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June 29, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
In the last post , we saw how commas not only connect, they set apart. We should set off with commas anything not essential to the flow of the sentence. This would include, with some exceptions, the . . .
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July 14, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
In my last post I asked what made a truly bad opening sentence for a novel. Not intentionally bad, like the Bulwer-Lytton contest gems. I'm talking about the bad that most writers are familiar with. . . .
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October 08, 2009 09:33 PM EDT --
This morning I got an email from my boyfriend linking this article.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i087771e1f6660364cf8e8e1c83832524
I usually . . .
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