Phew! I almost decided to ignore this post after seeing it explode into a flame war. Anyway, still the most civil flame war I've ever read on the...
So I've found some great threads here on adverbs and participles that have made my editing process far more efficient. I'm interested in seeing...
Pretty sure Breakfast of Champions by Kurdt Vonnegut, the author inserts himself directly into the story and basically apologizes to the character...
Actually Justin, I already had a sort of prologue with several unrelated scenes of the disease progressing from different people's perspective....
For me, anything that takes the reader out if the story, even for a second, is probably something to avoid. Most people end sentences with a...
I wasn't meaning to imply only word related. But you have to use words to describe it so word related humor is simpler. For the scene you...
What cogito said. You're working with words, so your humor should be word related. A joke that needs explaining isn't funny. Humor in writing is...
wasn't sure if I should open an entirely new thread on this, and I'm hesitant to open this can of worms, but I have a sentence that I'm currently...
Separate names with a comma.