by Rick Taubold and Kellee Kranendonk From Rick: For this week’s blog, I decided to build on another great article Kellee wrote for Silver Blade magazine. What I’m going to do is use Kellee’s article as a base, selectively choosing
Read MoreFrom Rick: The phrases on the left are incorrect, the ones on the right are correct. (1) Nip it in the butt vs. Nip it in the bud Nipping something in the bud means that you’re putting an end to
Read MoreFrom Rick: For this week’s post we have something a bit different. Lately I’ve run across a bunch of useful tidbits that I wanted to pass along because each is too short to warrant a separate blog. (1) THREE ARTICLES
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week Scott began a series on grammar checkers using the familiar Microsoft Word as a starting point, and we promised to continue that series. Well, I wasn’t quite ready this week to forge ahead on that, so
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week I covered a bunch of often confused homophones, and gave you ten more (below) to look up on your own. DRAFT/DRAUGHT DUAL/DUEL FAINT/FEINT FAZE/PHASE FORTH/FOURTH GAGE/GAUGE GRILL/GRILLE HEROIN/HEROINE HOARD/HORDE HOSTEL/HOSTILE Because you did that (you did,
Read MoreFrom Rick: Scott and I have done a couple of previous blogs on this topic (9/10/12 and 9/17/12). I’ve updated the blog categories to include one on Confusing Words, so you can find them easily. What I’m going to do
Read MoreFrom Rick: Better late than never as they say. Back in September (9/17 to be precise), I promised to clarify the usages of the words below and never got around to it. anytime vs. any time anymore vs. any more
Read MoreFrom Rick: Following up some on Scott’s post from last week, I’ve found a few errors that I keep seeing in beginner writing and in a number of self-published novels, so let’s take a look at them. ========== LIE/LAY– This
Read MoreFrom Scott: Last week, Rick went into some detail regarding the perils and pitfalls of punctuation, or more specifically, commas. After pausing to salute his efforts, I would like to move forward into another area that can get a writer
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