“Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks? Tonight can you get us a ride? Gotta make it through the tunnel, got a meeting with a man on the other side. . .” —Bruce Springsteen, “The Heist” aka “Meeting Across the River” An interesting topic’s being wrestled into submission… Read more“Meeting across the river”
Category: Revision
The long and winding road between first draft and final draft.
Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles
I am very happy to post this guest essay by the highly successful writer Laverne Daley, thirty-year veteran of corporate copywriting and freelance journalism: The notion of grammar and humor first struck me when I was writing an earlier post on my site (Precision in Writing – Is That Word… Read more“Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles”