#everyday editing

Weekend Workshop Sunday Edition

We have reached the last chapter in Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson. And here is it, the good stuff, dialogue. -Dialogue moves the narrative along and/or reveals something about a character. (I think I’ve heard that before.) Use a distinctive voice. -We indent every time a new person speaks. The end punctuation should go inside the quotation mark. -Dialogue can help us show rather than tell.…

Weekend Workshop Saturday Edition

Do we have chemistry? No, not me and you. Jeff Anderson from Everyday Editing, is asking about compound sentences in Chapter 9. -Compound sentences are made when two or more sentences are combined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions can be remembered with the mnemonic FANBOYS: for and nor but or yet so. You can skip the coordinating conjunction if you use a…

Weekend Workshop Sunday Edition

The title of Chapter 8 from Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson is awesome. “Give me a break.” Yep and I’m taking one right now in St. Kitts. But Anderson had another topic in mind. Paragraphs. -Paragraphs help readers and writers chunk information together and separate it as well. -Paragraphs may have any number of sentences. There is no rule. -Paragraphs tend to focus on one main idea (unity),…

Weekend Workshop Saturday Edition

Greetings from the Caribbean. Today I am snorkeling with my hubby and kiddo. Which works because when I saw the title of Chapter Seven from Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson, I was totally under water. What in the world is an appositive? -Appositives add information to sentences by renaming nouns. The appositive should be next to the noun it is renaming. Appositives need commas or dashes to…