How Many Exclamation Points is Too Many?
HINT: Any number higher than one. And here’s why.
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Parentheses vs Brackets: A Grammar Guide
Every Literary Holiday You Can Celebrate This Year
Every Way You Can Correctly Use a Question Mark
Yes, I wrote an entire blog post about how to use a question mark and it wasn’t a waste of my time. Because, in truth, we all are afraid to ask our friends and peers how to add a question mark correctly to a specific question when sentence structure and formatting come into play. Don’t…
Can You Use Too Many Commas in a Sentence?
10 Songs For Writers About Writing
Some songs you add to a playlist so that you have music to listen to while you write. Just like you have songs to pump you up for your writing session or celebrate what you accomplished after your writing session. Then there’s the playlist of songs that honor your story as a writer. That’s what…
For Real?! How You Can Correctly Use the Interrobang
When it comes to punctuation marks, the interrobang has by far the coolest name. But like its function, the word interrobang came from a merging of two words based on its two roles within a sentence.
When Should You Share Your Writing? 5 Questions to Ask Yourself
Think of a story that you loved reading. Remember how hard the protagonist worked towards the goal? Remember the hardships the hero had to face and conquer before a resolution was reached? Did you stop reading when the conflict increased? No, that’s the best part! Now think of writing your story in the same way…
3 Ways to Use Ellipses . . . Correctly
If punctuation had personality, the period would be the logical one, the comma calculated, the semi-colon the rambler and the colon attention-grabbing. And the ellipsis? That’s our mysterious one. What is the ellipsis holding back? What words will we never see in that quoted passage? And why were those words dropped in the first place?…
When Do You Capitalize After a Colon?
If you ask two writers this question, you probably wouldn’t receive the same response. There isn’t a straightforward answer when it comes to figuring out when to capitalize after a colon. While often used like an em dash or a semi-colon, the colon has multiple uses to both keep our sentences and numbers in line.…
