by Cheri Lasota | Sep 11, 2008 | Word Tools Vault
By Cheri Lasota Ever heard of an em dash? I thought not. I hadn’t heard of it until a few years ago, when I finally delved into the subject after much confusion on what a hyphen and dash actually look like. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, “Hyphens and the...
by Cheri Lasota | Sep 8, 2008 | Interview Vault
Ever feel like you’ve lost your way when you sit down to another writing session on your Great American Novel? Who hasn’t? Elizabeth Lyon’s A Writer’s Guide to Fiction is the second book in an ongoing series for writers on various aspects of the craft called—you...
by Cheri Lasota | Sep 8, 2008 | Grammar Vault
By Bill Moore Writers like to quote the classics and the famous. Often, though, through misinformation or poor research, they end up misquoting—and sometimes misinforming. In some cases, they attribute a statement to someone who never made it. Because they’ve heard...
by Cheri Lasota | Sep 8, 2008 | Grammar Vault |
By Cheri Lasota When I started freelancing as a fiction editor, I searched for a definitive stylebook to help me navigate the often shark-infested waters of fiction. I grew up on AP, generally known as newspaper style. But the AP Stylebook is built for speed and...
by Cheri Lasota | Sep 8, 2008 | Grammar Vault
By Charity Hogge of Mighty Pen Editing You already know them by reputation: Adverbs are bad news. Adverbs are second-class-citizen words. Use more than one adverb per page, and you’ll go blind. Sound familiar? Well, I’m here to tell you how adverbs saved...
