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May 02, 2006 - » » overheard
April 16, 2006 - » » Miss Lack is Forever in the Building
January 27, 2006 - » » jones
November 27, 2005 - » » old eggcorns & characters writing letters
October 26, 2005 - » » cursing
October 11, 2005 - » » !?@?!poor@!#$ English
October 09, 2005 - » » three in the morning, and other odds and ends
October 05, 2005 - » » this awkward construction
September 17, 2005 - » » the thing about names
July 27, 2005 - » » censorship of a specific kind
June 14, 2005 - »     1789 Massachusetts Spy 20 Aug. 3/2 Several persons were in a stoop and at windows within fifteen or twenty feet from the tree.... 13 July (1883) 58 Councillors seated about, sitting on benches near the bar, or on the stoop along the front of the house. 1856 MISS WARNER Hills Shatemuc ii, He was cleaning the harness of the wagon, and he took it out into the broad stoop outside of the kitchen door.
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March 29, 2005 - » » similes
March 17, 2005 - » » said: the undead (a sequel)
March 16, 2005 - » » said: the undead
March 05, 2005 - » » contractual relationships
March 04, 2005 - » » the un-said
January 17, 2005 - » » heartbreak
December 13, 2004 - » » I'm so proud
October 09, 2004 - » » chapters
October 07, 2004 - » » the paragraph ends
October 06, 2004 - » » endings
September 26, 2004 - » » odds and odder ends, including scolding publishers and mean readers
September 20, 2004 - » » first lines
September 09, 2004 - » » editing
August 02, 2004 - » » character names & keeping things straight
July 27, 2004 - » » more on facial expressions
July 24, 2004 - » » I've told you a million times not to exaggerate
July 07, 2004 - » » eggcorns & mondegreens & dialogue
May 04, 2004 - » » how to be right, and alienate your reader
April 01, 2004 - » » first paragraphs
March 23, 2004 - » » metaphor
March 22, 2004 - » » it's all in the shoulders
March 20, 2004 - » » fingers
March 20, 2004 - » » the face
March 19, 2004 - » » emotional short cuts
March 18, 2004 - » » another wrinkle
March 18, 2004 - » » Sam's mouth
March 17, 2004 - » » eyes
March 17, 2004 - » » emotions you might see in a character's face
March 16, 2004 - » » furrowed brow
March 04, 2004 - » » rehabilitating the adverb
February 22, 2004 - » » adjectives
February 17, 2004 - » » facadual is a perfectly cromulent word
February 15, 2004 - » » sentence fragments
February 12, 2004 - » » BTDT
January 30, 2004 - » » suggestions
January 28, 2004 - » » colors
December 21, 2003 - » » letters in narration
December 10, 2003 - » » twinkling transgressions, and not.
December 09, 2003 - » » oh, please
December 04, 2003 - » » give your readers some credit
October 09, 2003 - » » first person narratives