Hello all, Does the following sentence make sense... Can I follow 'But with the...' with a question? e.g. But with the planet becoming deadly,...
Hello all, 'Except' and 'except for' - when should one be used, and not the other? With regards to the above, which of these examples would be...
Hello! I'm in a bit of a tizz... I can't seem to work out which sentence (I'll paste them below) sounds right/is correct. All advice and help...
"The boy sat at the edge of the Silver Memorial Bridge, full moon above and the Ohio River below. West Virginia on his right, Ohio on his left....
If it makes sense and sounds good, please let me know, thank you in advance! I am actually responding to someone's poetry that was intelligent...
Here's a fun game that is really good for developing descriptions. Basically, you take a sentence, and then rewrite it without using any of the...
I'm at the start of writing a short story and I've come to a section where I need to introduce a lot of new information, but I feel like there's...
Hi! So, I've been sending out query letters and recently I noticed something big. My very first line is in present tense. The rest of the novel is...
I vaguely remember this one time in college that a professor talked about a kind of writing mistake. For example, it is wrong to have the subject...
"We don't talk about them here! That's like talking/asking about [...] in/at a [...]" Anyone have an idea how I could finish this sentence? The...
A question about the below sentence. I realise that I think in Mandarin/Cantonese (Chinese) when I write creatively because I grew up influenced...
Sorry if I weirdly worded that title/question, it's just a bit difficult to put my thoughts into words. Also, I apologize if I'm tagging this...
I don't pretend to be the best writer, but I like to think I've been doing it long enough to avoid the common mistakes new ones make. Every so...
So, I've got a little bit of a confusion with the following sentence as to what punctuation I would need (if any); "It was the strangest army...
How often do you guys consciously switch up your sentence structures? Do you mind this while writing the first draft, or when revising? I tend to...
Hello everyone, I'm writing a resume and I want to describe the Senior Patrol Leader position in boy scouts. Is a comma correct syntax for this...
I'm looking specifically for more a nihilistic take on this. Something that illustrates the mundane.But honestly, whatever pops in your head would...
Think of a scene. It could be one that you've written yourself, or one that you've never written and you're coming up with it just now. Now come...
Hi all, So I just wanted to have a bit of fun using a sentence I (ashamedly) used recently: "The walls were painted white and the carpet was...
I'm unhappy with this sentence. Suggestions for fixes? His head hurt from last night’s drinking, which seemed to take increasingly more to...
Separate names with a comma.
