Posts by Cakebox
To answer your question: all of your examples are grammatically correct. (Well done!) However, in most contexts, clarity and readability are even more important than grammatical correctness. By th...
The other answers are good but they strike me as abstract. Maybe I'm a philistine, but I like my advice concrete and practical. Different people naturally use different: Vocabulary Sentence leng...
Lots of helpful answers here. I'm adding one more as I think the suggestions which accompanied this quote... The show-don't-tell style that is so popular among aspiring writers today, forces yo...
My two cents! Which cost me significantly more after this morning's referendum result, mind you... What's conflict? Conflict exists when one desire is opposed to another. The opposing desires ca...
Addressing characters in dialogue: Anything goes. I usually call my mum 'mum', but I might call her 'mother' to be mock-serious. 'Queen of the Muffins'? Sure, if in the middle of some exchange it...