Resources for Writers

Resources for Writers

The Industry Standard Manuscript

Manuscript formatting for those seeking publication.

The Editorial Process

Confused about Proofreading versus Copy Editing versus Line Editing versus … Then read on.

Narrative Points of View

First, Second, Third, Fourth.

Third Limited, Third Omniscient, Third Objective.

Styles, for Writers

A Chicago Manual of Style cheat sheet for writers.

Grammatical Tense, Aspect, and Mood (TAM)

A survey of of verb usage. Supplemental documentation in support of a lecture I gave on the topic.

Minuses, Hyphens and Dashes. Oh, My!

The dash family of punctuation—minus, hyphen, en dash, em dash, and more.

Irksome Words

Coming soon!

More Irksome Words: The Truth Lies Therein

Musings on the English language and all the permutations of lie and lay.

Dialogue

Coming soon!

Rhetorical Techniques

Coming soon!

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