Bill Carrigan, science writer, author of novels and short stories, leader of a popular critique group, and long-time member of SFW likes to remind us of the basics.* Our website will publish his one-pagers on style―the tools we need to write well―starting with (click on the following links)
Introductory Adverbial Phrases
Commas and Semicolons in a Series
Commas with Nonrestrictive Phrase
To Prepare a Short Story for Submission
* To sample or order one of Bill Carrigan’s very fine novels, please click on the following link:
Hi Bill,
I just reviewed your style sheets, fascinating for me who is so lacking in many aspects of writing, especially punctuation and gramar. A copy of the style sheets should be in everyones file cabinet. Keep them comming.
Thank you
Grace
Comment by Grace Bizzarro — September 20, 2007 @ 12:17 pm |
Finally got around to printing out your style sheets. Now that these are in my possession, does this mean I am expected to make better presentations at our critiques? Really appreciate all your fine offerings. Thank you, Jerry
Comment by Jerry Swartz — October 27, 2007 @ 10:26 am |