Accidently or Accidentally – Which is Correct?
Between You and Me
A common mistake in spoken English is to say ‘between you and I’, as in this sentence: ✗ It’s a tiny bit boring, between you and I. In standard English, it’s grammatically correct to say ‘between you and me’ and incorrect to say ‘between you and I’. The reason for this is that a preposition such as between should be followed by an objective pronoun (such as me, him, her,
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Evoking Emotions in Readers in a Masterful Way
C.S. Lakin In this series on masterful writing, we’re now looking at emotion. Masterful showing of emotion, masterful “telling” of emotion, and masterful evocation of emotion. Perhaps the hardest thing for a writer to do well is to manipulate emotion. I say “manipulate” because one of the definitions of the word is “to operate in
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Using Vocal Cues to Show Hidden Emotion
By Becca Puglisi, @beccapuglisi Part of The How They Do It Series JH: Tapping into the hidden emotions and subtext of a scene is a wonderful way to pull readers into that scene. Becca Puglisi visits the lecture hall today to share her tips on creating subtext and using vocal cues to show the hidden
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