by Zoe M. McCarthy | Dec 10, 2015 | Writing
“Avoid on-the-nose writing.” —Jerry JenkinsHere’s a passage from a book published in the 20’s: The Marriage of Barry Wicklow by Ruby M. Ayres. It contains 7 problems that bog the story for today’s reader. I’ve superscripted instances with the problem...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Jun 26, 2014 | Writing
“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” —William Strunk, Jr. Show, don’t tell, is pounded into the pores of...
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