The Writer's Aide

03/04/2021

What's wrong here? If you don't know, keep reading!

http://thewritersaide.net/read-our-blog/nouns-that-appear-plural-but-are-singular

03/04/2021

What's wrong here? If you don't know, keep reading!

http://thewritersaide.net/read-our-blog/nouns-that-appear-singular-but-are-plural

03/04/2021

What's wrong here? If you don't know, keep reading!

http://thewritersaide.net/read-our-blog/nouns-that-are-always-plural

03/04/2021

https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/how-to-write-dialogue/dialogue-rules-punctuation/?fbclid=IwAR1YsisZY_F1LQrb3VsqaBr29QstyaaLhgv5IWI-Z4quJxbqgirWgC-6D9k

Even wonder if the period goes inside or outside the quotation marks? In this guide, you'll learn all the dialogue rules you need in just a few minutes.

04/03/2021

04/03/2021

To begin...

Let's take it from the top.

04/03/2021

Don't overlook your main character's development. It's integral to the story.

Learn the 9 ingredients of character development. Ask questions like, how does your character talk, what events shaped his personality, what does she look like, and more, to create more interesting and fully developed characters.

04/03/2021

How many of these words and phrases were you misusing?

Especially since spell-check probably won't catch them.

04/03/2021

An oldie but goodie for today!

Bertha Thompkins, English teacher, presents Grammatically Correct Pop Songs--all the hit songs you love, without those horrendous grammatical errors. Present...

05/01/2021

Was there ever really any question what the would be?

'Pandemic,' plus 'malarkey,' 'kraken,' 'antebellum,' and 8 more of our top lookups of 2020

24/11/2020

This quiz may seem easy to some, but two things stand out for us:

1. It's easier to determine the correct spelling of the word when we see the right and wrong spellings side by side.

2. The spelling "rule" 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' doesn't always work...

I beleive in you.

31/10/2020

Please don't! Just sanitize your hands!