"I locked them inside so they could be in each other's arms, like how they always cling to each other like a coward to bully you." I think it...
Hi, I’m writing a book and I have noticed a phrase that I have repeated so many times. (Over 5 times in a chapter) ‘I watched as…’ or ‘He/She...
Hi! Good evening here (yes it's over than midnigth actually in France...) I'm new on the forum and I have to ask you something. I am a french...
so from, Keep running… or, Leave Megan… How sticky are these sentences? The only clause I could remove is the, leaving Megan… But this is an...
The sound of footsteps breaks the noisy wind. I want to say that someone can hear the sound of footsteps despite the loud wind. But I don´t know...
Editing the first part of a short story. -------------------------------------------------- “I got the blue nettle!” Milly gasped, charging into...
I have a sentence that I'm starting my novel with: "Her name, her real one, had long since been lost to the past." Now I was testing out...
I recently saw an episode of The Big Bang Theory, and they're a few lines of dialogue I don't understand. The lines are: Leonard: You don’t even...
So, my mom says this flows poorly, I beg to differ. Since she's not a writer, and gave me some very..... poorly structured suggestions... I've...
Hello ! English is not my native language and, strangely, as I proofread them, my sentences feel more and more untrustworthy. I'm not a frequent...
Basically what, the title, says. Okay, enough of that, this isn't a joke. If a gun was put to my head and I told to write only using correct...
Here's the sentence. "Then I bled into the street and keeled, the ravishing moon outlining my blood and my beautiful corpse." The word...
My two arguments about sentence structure is word usage and the word order within a sentence. I am convinced about sentence structure when using a...
A couple people in my critique group on different occasions have commented that my sentence lengths were too similar. Some of what they say makes...
I'm a dreadfully slow writer, and the biggest culprit is my inability to quickly construct sentences effectively. I know what I want to convey,...
Is the following sentence structure is considered valid by conventional editors in the fiction writing field?: "Sarah staggered across the finish...
According to writer AJ Humpage (http://allwritefictionadvice.blogspot.com/2011/04/common-sentence-errors-and-how-to.html) the most common sentence...
The trouble I have with writing is the proper use of Vocabulary. Reading doesn't always do me very much good because of my poor reading...
I find my novel having either too many I this.. I that.. and if I do change the sentence structure then it seems I'd be changing it into another...
Could somebody suggest an alternative use of terms, or sentence structure for the sentences below (rephrase the main idea)? Like the product A,...
Separate names with a comma.
