All About Similes and Metaphors Similes and metaphors are two ways to enrich your descriptive text by making comparisons. It’s easy to say, “The sunset was orange with little streaks of purple and yellow and it was really pretty.” However, it’s also boring and gives no context to how a character feels about the scene […]
“Fictional Speech,” She Said
Keeping the Conversation Alive. Part of being a good writer is also being a good reader. I stand by my conviction that it is impossible to be a truly good writer unless you read. A lot. I’m an avid reader. It’s how I learned to be a good writer. I have read hundreds of books. […]
10 Great Reasons To Hire A Professional Writer
Hiring a professional writer can save you a lot of work, stress, and time that could be better spent on important tasks related to your area of expertise. Accountants should be concentrating on crunching numbers. Dentists and doctors need to attend to their patients. Chefs want to be preparing so that their customer’s palates will […]
13) Grammatically Speaking – Pardon Me, Your Participle is Dangling
I’ve never been one to dangle my participles (at least not in public, anyway). Until I sat down to write this article, I didn’t realize that a dangling participle is what it was called. So really, I knew what a dangling participle was in practice, but didn’t know that was the name for it. When […]
2) Grammatically Speaking … Why Use Good Grammar?
The first question in using good grammar is “why?” There are lots of reasons to use good grammar. The most important, in my opinion, is because of how people judge you based on the way you speak or write. We all may like to think that we do not judge a book by its cover, […]
1) Grammatically Speaking … An Introduction
Every once in a while I will do a blog article on some aspect of grammar that is a problem for most people. I’ll skip the primary school lessons and spend more time on the more difficult grammar issues. Some of those more difficult grammar issues are often debated. I’ll try to discuss more commonly […]
