by christawojo@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2021 | Dear Writer, Self-editing
Join us for the Systemized Self-Editing Live Zoom Mastermind with Candace Johnson Comma splices, appositives, grammatical expletives, purple prose, awkward dialogue, redundant characters, infodumps, structural issues, plot holes. No one writes a perfect first draft....
by christawojo@gmail.com | Aug 3, 2021 | Dear Writer, Self-editing
Unnecessary, weak words, like grammatical expletives, dilute our writing, but most of us don’t even realize we’re using them. That’s because they are part of our everyday conversation. I’ll tell you about my rude awakening to filler words and...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jul 27, 2021 | Dear Writer, Self-editing, Uncategorized
Grammatical expletives are not dirty words, but they can be equally offensive. Grammatical expletives are empty words that take up valuable space and dilute the power of your sentences. This article from Just Publishing Advice tells us how to target these words in...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jun 4, 2021 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips, Self-editing
Photo by Alex Green on Pexels.com Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibitionJack Kerouac Do you proofread as you write? Whenever spell check underlines something in its taunting red line, I immediately want to make it disappear. I know this interrupts my...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 11, 2021 | Dear Writer, Self-editing, Uncategorized
By Candace Johnson If adding “Published Author” after your name is one of your goals, you’re probably itching to polish a NaNoWriMo manuscript or a WIP that is marinating on your hard drive and send it out into the world. But don’t just run a final spellcheck and...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2021 | Dear Writer, Grammar Demystified, Self-editing, Uncategorized
By Candace Johnson from Change It Up Edit An appositive is a modifier. It’s a noun or noun phrase that immediately follows another noun or noun phrase to further define it. You probably use appositives all the time without even realizing it....
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