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Whether or not to capitalize common nouns or proper nouns seems to confuse even the best of writers. I find myself often looking in my Chicago Manual of Style book or another copyediting book to see if a certain word should be capitalized whenever I am...
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Creating characters is one of the best parts about writing a novel or writing a short story. You can create any person you want along with their habits, background, quirks, hobbies, and families. You can give them that name that you always wanted instead...
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When you are creating characters, you will most likely concentrate on your main protagonist and antagonist in the novel or short story. There is an important rule to remember when you are creating characters: Make your protagonist have imperfections,...
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Through my editing services , I often have writers ask me how to pick their characters' names when they are creating characters in novels. Think about when you are reading a novel. When you first read a name, it may give you a certain feeling about...
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Creating characters is one of the best parts about writing fiction. Think about it--you can make up anyone you want--with any characteristics, hobbies, family, career, and so on. Before you start writing a novel, novella, or short story, you may want...
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Punctuation rules can often be confusing, especially since different styles of writing sometimes have different rules. The following article suggests three common punctuation marks: apostrophe, semicolon, and comma, and the standard way to use them...
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Semicolons are often confusing for people, and I find many mistakes when I edit manuscripts for my editing service, Editor 911. Here are some punctuation rules about the semicolon. The semicolon can be used to join two complete sentences that are related...
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Today, I am going to discuss another punctuation mistake I often see when I am editing manuscripts for my freelance editing business, Editor 911 . Punctuation rules and comma rules are often hard to remember, and they can be confusing. Similar to the...
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The next series of this blog is going to be a number of posts on punctuation rules. We will start with apostrophe rules as misplaced apostrophes are mistakes I see many times when I am editing manuscripts for my freelance editing business, Editor 911...
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If you are a fiction writer, then you will be editing fiction often. This is not always easy to do yourself, and so you may want to consider one of the following methods: paid editing services, critique and writers' groups, or a manuscript exchange...
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