SLOG – Grammar 2

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Success Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill A good editor will correct your grammar for you, but it is better if you understand it yourself. We grew up using commas with introductory phrases and where we wanted pauses. Since e-mail, comma use is less. But, we...

SLOG – Grammar 1

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill We find grammar a difficult subject. Like life, it is ever changing. We both have old grammar books that we know from cover to cover. Unfortunately their rules continually change. And whatever you do, don’t...

SLOG – Editing 7

Partial excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. Both books referenced in our posts of 12/23/08 and 12/21/08 are good reading a little at a time. Like most reference books, we suggest picking them up and reading a little at a time. If you read an...

SLOG – Editing 6

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. Another treasure is the Thesaurus of Alternatives to Worn-Out Words and Phrases, by Robert Hartwell Fiske. An example of this priceless work follows: As luck would have it by chance; coincidentally;...

SLOG – Editing 5

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book,by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. A favorite of ours is Words that make a difference and how to use them in a masterly way, by Robert Greenman. The examples used in his book are all from the New York Times. We’ve chosen two examples for style...