Anyone heard of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? If you haven't, here's a little blurb from the website: Since 1982 the English Department at...
The most common example of an antagonistic pair is in the upper arm, the biceps and triceps; The triceps relaxes while the biceps contracts to...
This might seem like a ridiculous question because the answer is simple: if it happens, get rid of the sentence and take a different approach....
Can you tolerate this penetrating light? or is it my role to distract you? How do I correctly punctuate this line? Maybe the first '?' Should go,...
Is it redundant to use "e.g." and "among others" in the same sentence? So the abbreviation "e.g." by way of intro, then you give all the...
So I've finally gotten to a place in my WIP Gravity where I found an organic place to work in the title. My MCs are two headstrong men who are...
Hi, this is my sentence: "Having to pay my way through school, I procured employment with …" I'd like help with the first part "Having to pay my...
Not sure I have the punctuation right here. "Thing is Steve old chap, we're a bit worried ourselves. While you and I are sorting out the...
Hi... Well, here's the thing. There is this character that's like a father figure to the main but he's not that important overall, I just want to...
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just...
I've been doing some research and I've been struggling to find an answer to a question I have. There are four types of sentences: Simple,...
"Even with modern drive technology, ships could only carry so much in the way of fuel or generate so much thrust." So I was going back over my...
I'm writing in english even though it's not my first language which can often result in some awkward sentences amongst other things. There's this...
I mean to say that this character likes danger, but I refuse to say : "James liked danger." The problem is, it still sounds like the most...
Post your favourite first sentence, preferably from a novel, novella, or short story. Judgments should be made only on the sentence itself. Don't...
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...
Ever since I started to be interested in fiction writing about 2 years ago, I've struggled to write. At first, the biggest issue holding me back...
Aloha! How do you do? Well, you see, I was writing my manuscript when something bugged me. I have this text: He searched in the internet 'the...
Hello everyone, I had an odd email question. When writing an email I am often tempted to hit the enter key to start a fresh line...
I've just watched an episode of the British comedy series Blackadder, in which the "hero" is a soldier feigning madness so he'll be sent home and...
Separate names with a comma.
