The Write Blog

Photo by mag3737 When it comes to writing, there are dozens of rules just begging to be broken. Some are flexible and give you a little wiggle room — like hyphenation or deciding whether to use the comma before the “and” in lists. But there are other grammar rules that you just don’t break. You [...]

As promised, here’s the second installment of my series on packing more punch into your prose. In Part 1, we talked about using strong verbs, ditching the adverbs, and the benefits of active sentences. Those are essential points to keep in mind if you want to inject some life into your writing. So, this week, [...]

Did that title make you angry? Did your stomach turn just a little as your eyes scanned over the misplaced apostrophes and the random, unnecessary comma? Did you wonder aloud what kind of sorry, second-rate proofreader let errors like that slip by unnoticed? I hope so. Punctuation may seem like a small thing: After all, [...]