What happened to the humble semicolon? Why is it so neglected? It has two essential uses in writing, but perhaps the sixteen-second attention span we learned watching Sesame Street is obsoleting one of them—long sentences. In Compound Sentences* Let’s look at the writing of a master of semicolons, Jules Verne, in a translation I have […]
A Student–Tutor Dialogue Teach Me Student: This beautiful sentence by John Steinbeck still captivates me fifteen years after I first read it: “At about ten o’clock in the morning, the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam, flies shot like rushing stars.” We
A Student–Tutor Dialogue Student: What do you think of this story? I know it lacks something, but I don’t know what. Appearance as Metaphor Tutor: You need to love your characters. There is a convention in fiction that uses the features of a person as metaphors for character. Close-set eyes mean a person may be
You want to learn to write, so you sit down and write something. Writer’s likely call what you wrote an “ugly first draft;” that’s is not a criticism; it’s what we all write. And it’s what we all should write—no editing while getting that first draft on paper. But doing it doesn’t make you a
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! “Me and my friend want to
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! Help! My Page is Too Nar-
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! Look at these: – – —.
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! You’re all writers, so you know
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! 10 Items or Less Can vs.
In this series of blogs, Writing Woes, I will share with you some amusing insights on the mistakes people inadvertently make when writing, based on my work as a professional tutor and as a writer for Summit University. (You can visit my tutoring website here: https://lynnthetutor.com) Here we go! “The leaders poured over the map.”
