Today’s Grammar Bite: How to style titles of TV shows, movies, songs, magazines, etc. I’ll even cover named vessels—crazy! 🙂 The rule of thumb—little things in quotes, big things in italics. Huh? you may be thinking. Think of it this way—a lot of works consist of smaller pieces. Books are a collection of chapters, magazines […]
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Grammar: “Try and” vs. “Try to” and Anyways vs. Anyway
There are a lot of things we say in everyday speech that aren’t exactly correct in formal writing. A couple of examples are “try and (do something)” and “anyways.” Neither one is wrong necessarily, but they’re both considered informal. And yet we hear them all the time because they are firmly rooted in casual dialect, […]
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As an indie author, or self-publisher, you have a lot of hats to wear. Not only are you worrying about writing a book, quite an endeavor on its own, you’re also assuming the publisher’s role. This means that to be successful, you’ll make arrangements for editing, proofreading, formatting, cover art, and final-pass readers. Let’s take […]
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