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Too Bright To See Too Loud To Hear2 comments

ihannahrae wrote 1 week ago: ok so here’s the gig for tonight. i just took my sleep meds on a completely empty stomach and … more →

Tags: all time favorite, Fiction, ihannahrae, Incredible, influential, intensity, Loop, Lyrics, Muse

Technically Speaking Part II

aohwrite wrote 1 week ago: I know, you all have been waiting with baited breath for the second part of my mini-series on common … more →

Tags: Insight & Tips, Acronym, English, Grammar, semicolon, Technical Writing, writing

Parsing 102: Henry James 4 comments

gotheca wrote 2 weeks ago: She herself had been established in Venice for fifteen years and had done a great deal of good there … more →

Tags: Fiction Writing Advice, Grammar, Adjective, Adverb, Article, auxiliary verb, Clause, Compound Sentence, Conjunction

Punctuation Anyone?

johnfwills wrote 1 month ago: Here we go again. (Punctuation Anyone?)  To punctuate, or not to punctuate; that is the question. Or … more →

Tags: writing, Books, Poetry, Culture, Family, Random, Apostrophe, colon, comma

pink shorts and I'm saying nothing.3 comments

passionateforwords wrote 1 month ago: Hi, guys! It’s 10:01pm and I am getting ready for bed. I was just thinking of the day’s … more →

Tags: Pieces of My Life, thoughtfulness, Music, Harry Potter, happiness, wizard rock, lauren fairweather, i'm saying nothing, muggle music

Punctuation Anyone?

johnfwills wrote 1 month ago: Here we go again. (Punctuation Anyone?)  To punctuate, or not to punctuate; that is the question. Or … more →

Tags: Writers, Apostrophe, colon, comma, exclamation point, hyphen, <punctuation>, punctuation mark, punctuation marks

Writing Group, Cliches, Interviews.

mfrobins wrote 2 months ago: I ditched the idea of the toll-booth from the POV of a dime, if for nothing else, I decided writing … more →

Tags: Summer Writing Group, Paranthetical Narration, Chicory, interviews

Emoticons and Brackets

qorthevile wrote 2 months ago: This post is in response to a comment that was made on my last post. The question posed was “S … more →

Tags: Literacy, Emoticons

Parentheses4 comments

qorthevile wrote 2 months ago: There’s a lot to be said about parentheses and brackets, so I’m going to focus on how th … more →

Tags: Literacy, brackets

It's not good news

Laura wrote 4 months ago: I’m sorry to be the one to say this, but I must. The blog Yahoo! Profiles News is just not goo … more →

Tags: altogether/all together, Change of Person, Confused Words, dashes, hyphens, its/it's, misspellings, plurals, <punctuation>

Bristol Palin, please stay in school

Laura wrote 4 months ago: If you’re offering advice to a teen mother, you need to know your stuff. You need to know how … more →

Tags: misspellings, <punctuation>, Subject-Verb Agreement, Wrong Words, modifiers, hyphens, Adjectives, Periods, Unnecessary Words

Finding information using Live Search1 comment

Noel wrote 4 months ago: In my previous post, I gave an overview of how to use Google to find information on the web. Google … more →

Tags: Web Search, Search, live, quotation marks

Notes On Punctuation3 comments

haleyfaye wrote 4 months ago:        There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he … more →

Tags: Thinking, Ha-ha!, quotation, Poetry, <punctuation>, Point, comma, semicolon, colon

From guest author, Kathie the Beltway gal2 comments

yenezie wrote 5 months ago: Origamifreak went to DC for the holiday weekend to visit Kathie.  After being teased about “st … more →

Tags: Cats, Travel, Literature, language, CS Lewis, Grammar

An (adjective) (noun) For Our Times1 comment

steve and seánan wrote 5 months ago: Ever been in an art gallery, seen some bit of impenetrably pompous prose on the information card for … more →

Tags: silliness, Art, Grumbles, Culture, Communication, Artspeak, Mad Libs, simplicity, Clarity

No Two Ways About It

Susan de la Vergne wrote 6 months ago:             Technical professionals tell me that one thing they find disconcerting about the whole b … more →

Tags: Communication, abbreviations, Business + Communication, Business writing, eingineers and writing, High school English, <punctuation>, quotation marks, technical professionals

It makes no sense to me

Laura wrote 6 months ago: Sometimes I read a single paragraph on the Web that is so confused and confusing that I can’t … more →

Tags: <punctuation>, Wrong Words, Change of Person, Periods, Unnecessary Words, Typo, wrong word, Period, Extra word

I do not think it means what you think it means1 comment

Laura wrote 6 months ago: Someone at Yahoo! Shine thinks the ball that drops at midnight on New Year’s Eve is heinous or … more →

Tags: <punctuation>, Wrong Words, Typo, wrong word, Period, parenthesis, Infamous

"I don't know. I'm just me, and am I even human?"

culturelobster wrote 7 months ago: Remember what this blog was like back before every single post was about Dan Savage and gay folks? B … more →

Tags: Bruises, Chairlift, feminist perspective, i tried to do handstands for you, indie pop, jona bechtolt, khaela maricich, miranda july, The Believer


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