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August 27, 2017
I've been working on a manuscript for the past few weeks that has had some, shall we say, "challenges" when it comes to punctuation.
There have been a lot of commas. And ellipses that go on for seven or eight "dots." (Though - unlike the manuscript before this one, the...
August 13, 2017
As an editor, I see a little of everything when I'm working with authors. I see the authors who want to keep everything as "real" and "gritty" as possible (in other words, they swear a lot and graphically describe sex and violence), and I see authors who apparently don...
August 6, 2017
All of us have our pet peeves. They range from "people who drive slowly in the fast lane" to "flowers that only bloom during the one week while you're on vacation" and all sorts of things in the middle.
Editors are no exception.
Yes, we follow style guides that give us t...
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