Redundancy in a sentence is annoying, and it is also a nuisance. Conveying information in more than one way, or by repeating wording, is consciously or subconsciously distracting to the reader and contributes to compositional clutter. Note in the discussions and revisions following each example how...
Adjectives and Adverbs Guide
This post discusses two categories of parts and speech key to helping writers describe things and actions.AdjectivesAn adjective is a word or a combination of two or more words that modify or provide additional information about a noun. There are three general uses of adjectives: attributive, predicate,...
8 Great Writing Tips for Kids
Here are my best tips on how to keep growing and improving as a writer, however young you are:#1: Have a go at some writing exercises – you can find lots of these online, or you could have a go at them in workbooks or school books. Lots of adults find writing exercises helpful, too, so that they...
How to Create a Character Profile
Have you created character profiles for the main cast of your novel?While not all authors use character profiles, many find them a very handy tool for keeping track of their characters – and for developing and fleshing out those characters in the first place.Done well, a character profile can help you...
When to Use a Colon: Rules and Examples
The colon can be a tricky punctuation mark. You’ve probably grasped periods, question marks, exclamation points, and commas – but the rules surrounding colons may seem a bit trickier.There are two main ways to use colons:To introduce an item or a series of items.To replace a semi-colon between two independent...
