Having occasionally received corrections of my grammar from people who either weren’t listening in school, or who wanted me to adopt rules from the 18th or 19th century, I really liked The very model of an amateur grammarian. (Yes, go right ahead and send me an email telling me the previous sentence is too long and complex. Try it!)
(HT: The ever delightful Language Log. Picture Credit: Easy Clipart)
Now don’t, just don’t say anything to me about ending a sentence with a preposition. Prepositions are fine things to end a sentence with! I’m an editor, and I say so! (I also say not to use lots of exclamation marks, but we’ll ignore that for now.) So you’re writing a book. Ask yourself early….
In the third of her monthly posts on writing, Dr. Dolly Berthelot, author of Perfectly SquareTM discusses three questions you should ask yourself when you begin writing. We’re going to be adding this to our recommended reading for prospective authors. Thinking about these three things will greatly increase the likelihood that your book will be…
This isn’t precisely what we do here, though some of this might apply to the Areopagus series, but Neal at Literal-Minded has a post summarizing some points from a panel on publishing a scholarly paper. It brought back memories of the time in graduate school when one of my professors said of one of my…
… from Nick Harrison. (HT: Adrian Warnock) Let me start by saying that good author/editor relationships are very, very important. … Read! Enjoy! Learn!
Dr Dolly Says …ASK YOUR MAMA! By Dolly Haik-Adams Berthelot © 2025 If you are fortunate enough to still have a Mother this Mother’s Day, let’s consider getting to know her a little better. How do you do that after maybe “knowing her” for decades? ASK SOME QUESTIONS! And listen to her answers. Really listen….
This conversation occurred on Facebook Live, and is trimmed here just a bit. Bruce Epperly is a prolific writer, and has written three books on living during the pandemic.
