editing
Don’t be an asshole: an editor’s guide to internet etiquette
When I took my first editing course, our instructor gave us a valuable piece of advice: don’t correct someone else’s grammar/spelling on social media. Ever. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and internet forums (are they still A Thing? Am old) are the textual equivalent of a casual conversation. Do you stop someone mid-conversation to correct their grammar? No,…
Read MoreOn worldbuilding: Susan Mallery and the rich world of Fool’s Gold, California
2018 was the year I got hooked on romance novels. I don’t know about you, but I was raised with a general attitude of scorn towards all things romance-novel-y. My mom called them “bodice-rippers” and wouldn’t have been caught dead reading one, so, even though I’m a grown-ass woman who can (surely!) make up her…
Read More“To fist” or not “to fist,” that is the question
Sometimes word choices are technically correct…but they just plain bug me. Case in point: last year I read a couple of books where the word “fisted” was used as a verb. Frequently. Noticeably often. It really bothered me. I couldn’t think of a single instance where I’d seen the word “fisted” used as a verb like this before. “She…
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