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Sentences: Long is beautiful

If it’s well written, that is.

 

Name your agent

Who did what? If you are writing about people, put them in the sentence.

 

Acronyms and otherwise

The abbreviation “CBC” is not an acronym. Really.

The order of things

Your prose will flow more smoothly if you narrate things in the order in which they happened.

Sentences: A sentence is a thought, not a warehouse

Sentences can be large, they can contain multitudes—but not literary litter.

 

 

Living vs. being based

When did we stop living in a place and start being “based” there, as in “Jane Geist, based in Toronto”?

 

Interview with Mary Schendlinger

Luanne Armstrong interviews Mary Schendlinger on: types of editing, from developmental, structural, to copyediting; writing Geist buys; finding an editor; the term “creative non-fiction.”

The sense of sight

Stop, look and listen before you use the verb to see.
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