This blog's purpose is to be helpful to someone. There are a million things it wants to tell you and ways it hopes to encourage you in your writing and editing endeavors, and today's subject is revisions. I sense an inward groaning at the sound of
One time, hoping to win a scholarship, I wrote a short story about a forklift. I didn't win. I asked someone to proofread it for me and she said I had written a sentence in the passive voice. I wish I could say I knew what that meant
I was reading a news article recently and came across these words: "The Russians isn't ready to make a peace deal." I had to read it again because my mind wanted me to get rid of the "s" after Russians, but I immediately knew
I feel uncomfortable whenever I need to send an email to someone I don't know. I think the opening is the hardest part. Not really, I think closing the email is even harder. But let's start at the beginning (the salutation). I looked through my "
English is my first language. I think learning English any other way would be very difficult. There are countless inconsistencies in the rules of spelling, and the meanings of many of the words keep changing. I recently heard a phrase that was new to me, yet I knew exactly what
Until recently, I thought that the first step in editing was to look for errors. The perfectionist in me wants to fix those things first, but I have come to realize that this can be a waste of time. This does not mean proofreading for errors is not important (it
For as long as I can remember, I have been writing "Mothers' Day" and "Fathers' Day" because I just assumed everyone else was writing it wrong. In my defense, I wasn't paying close attention to how often other sources were placing the