If you are looking for a great book on punctuation, here it is. Eats, Shoots & Leaves discusses everything from the apostrophe to the comma–and is a good read as well. Add this to your reference library and brush up on your sentence structure. It’s a good one.
Be Your Own Editor is a crash course in grammar and writing basics. It covers a wide variety of topics from common errors in punctuation and word usage, to structuring nonfiction material and essays, to developing strong characters and plausible dialogue in fiction.
Until midnight on Mother’s Day, I’m giving away free electronic copies of BYOE. [...]
by Catherine L. Tully
National Punctuation Day was Sept. 24th, which means I’m a day late on this post, but I thought the website was interesting enough to share anyway. Plus, there is a baking contest that goes along with this that you can still enter. That’s right–bake something in the form of a punctuaton mark and send in by [...]
by Catherine L. Tully
I know a lot of people who are really good writers, but they aren’t all getting paid good money. I remember one writer that frequented a forum that I visited frequently. She was a better writer than I am, and she was frittering her time away writing for publications that paid five [...]
A recent comment asking about abuse of the apostrophe left me with the desire to elucidate further. Here you go, folks–no more abusing those apostrophes. You could go blind. Ever wonder why it looks RIGHT to add an apostrophe after a verb or to write “Open Seven Day’s A Week”?
Seeing that one fills me [...]
I’ve seen it. I’ve even been guilty of it myself.
Abuse of the apostrophe.
As a writer, this is an inexcusable thing. It makes an editor think you are not up to writing for them. It marks you as an amateur. If you are one of the many people who struggles with how to (and when to) [...]
