Know Your Lays from Your Lies

Know Your Lays from Your Lies

Today, Melchior the Very Large Cat is banging his kitty-sized gong, campaigning for all original content. “I tried Grammarly’s plagiarism checker free of charge because it never pays to steal someone else’s meeses.” All but the most grammarly of us has made a mistake in writing the English language. We lay when we should lie […]

Writing’s Little Things

Writing’s Little Things

Details matter, someone once said. As a writer and teacher, I’m willing to overlook spelling, grammatical and usage errors from new writers. But the moment I spot a small error from a writer who is supposedly a pro, something inside me cringes and I have trouble admiring that writer. Even if the writer is ME. […]

Long and Short: Sentence Length for Writers

I heard about a writer whose editor rewrote the sentences of her novel so that they were all the same length. Don’t know which planet this editor was from, but most sentence writing advice cleaves to varying the length.Writing Tip for Today: Remember my adage? There are only two kinds of writing; writing that works […]