By Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl Phrases and clauses are both groups of words that work together in a sentence. The difference is that a clause has a subject and a verb—often, a clause could be a sentence if it were all by itself, and when it could be, we call it a main clause or an […]
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5 Key Setting Mistakes To Avoid In Your Fiction By Mary Buckman My writing students come from all over the world and write in every genre and subgenre imaginable. While their writing is often solid, sometimes it lacks key elements. This is hardly surprising since there are so many things to juggle in creating a good
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By Janice Hardy Good characters step off the page and into readers’ hearts, but that doesn’t happen if all the characters sound the same. Too-similar voices can make it hard to tell characters apart and they wind up blending together into one big character mush . . . see more
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Previously, we talked about how descriptive writing is a crucial aspect of creating a book that absorbs, enthralls and entertains your reader… But what happens when descriptive writing goes too far? You know what it’s like – how often have you read a book by a novice that contains seemingly endless run-on sentences so packed