https://booksbywomen.org/tapping-the-experts-how-to-enrich-your-research-and-your-writing-by-carol-m-cram/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/tapping-the-experts-how-to-enrich-your-research-and-your-writing-by-carol-m-cram/#comment-49112 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:22:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22023#comment-49112 A few ideas that might be worth at least a long blog post. – The emerging conventions (that often break the formal rules) of writing emails, texts, tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, online forums, etc. For example, many forums have no way of bolding, italicizing, indenting, etc., so it is impossible to follow some of the rules. – Novelist”s handbook. The most overused words by newbie writers and wannabe novelists: just, so, then, already. Dialogue tags. The alleged rule that you shouldn”t use adverbs. Guidelines for using passive voice. When should inner dialogue be italicized? Author forums are full of these discussions. – How to use the edit and critique functions on Word and Google Docs. – How to get the various spellchecks to remember your non-standard usages, so that they don”t keep changing them automatically: names, coined terms, slang, dialect, abbreviations, etc.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/tapping-the-experts-how-to-enrich-your-research-and-your-writing-by-carol-m-cram/#comment-49103 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:02:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22023#comment-49103 […] Melissa Donovan examines style guides: essential writing resources for professionals, while Carol Cram explores tapping the experts: how to enrich your research and your writing. […]

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