From Rick: For the next three or four posts, I’m going to dive into some interesting aspects of word usage confusion (with a little grammar thrown in). Writers need to put their best foot forward in terms of understanding and
Read MoreFrom Rick: Scott and I have done a number of blogs in the past on words that writers commonly confuse or misuse. A few weeks ago, one of our blog readers sent me a link to a blog he’d done
Read Moresubtitled with the quote by Dr. Smith in the original TV series Lost in Space: “Oh, the pain, the pain.” From Rick: In the past, we’ve done several posts on the topic of confusing words, and I frequently see other
Read Moreby 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: 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
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