Grammar

I took a rare night off last night to attend a special workshop of the James River Writers. It was...

I was a sophomore at USC (the one in South Carolina, not Southern California) when I took a fiction writing...

A novelist friend of mine recently wrote me a letter -- not an E-mail, mind you, but an actual letter...on...

Here's one of those online quizzes where the results seem to match what I'm writing...at least this time around. I...

In her blog One Writer's Window, Joan Esherick recently discussed a problem writers will face sooner or later: Intent vs....

I am often asked why I would want to even try to write a novel, much less go through the...

Here are some pairs of words that are often confused. If you've ever written about someone facing a "nerve-wracking" experience...

Can't we writers just get along? Apparently not. I was reading a journal called Paperback Writer, which is written by...

What happens if you publish a novel, then end up being sued by another author who claims you stole his...

When do non-English words become English? What constitutes a word's integration into more than one language as a legitimate word within each language?

To those who choose to read what I say here in this journal, I wanted to get a few things...

Did you wish everyone a Happy "Veteran's" Day yesterday? If you did, you had one apostrophe too many! The names...

A reader recently dropped me an E-mail to ask about my profile. The two things that caught her eye was...

Recently, Turtle left the following comment: Just remember, I'm a newbie, so don't become upset at what I'm about to...

We each have our own pet peeves when it comes to grammar. One of my biggest goes back to 1986....

Andrea made an excellent point in my last piece about rejection, "The 'R' Word." She states, "I don't think I...