A friend recently asked, “What’s your novel about?” Good question. I’ve been putting off the logline post, but no longer. I shall grace you with it today. What’s a logline? It’s supposed to be that catchy sentence that makes you want to read the book/watch the movie/play the game. For novels, it’s typically a one-sentence-description [...]
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Logline–what's my book about?
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The punctuation underdog: Semicolon
(back to Classes) A friend requested an entry on the semicolon, which he feels is underused. Alas, if this were only the case in literary circles. According to many an agent and editor’s blog, the semicolon is often overused — thereby producing the dreaded Mark of an Amateur. Now, of course, using it occasionally and [...]
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He said, she said
(back to Classes) Punctuation What is the appropriate punctuation for dialogue? Well, in U.S. English, we use quotation marks, like this: “…” U.K. English is: ‘…’ Germans use different quotes: „…” or «…» And also in French and Spanish: «…» But, that’s just extra info. Going back to the U.S. English quotes, we end dialogue [...]
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Doomsday for books–or is it?
So, it’s Freitag here in Deutschland. Freitag = Free Day = Friday. Actually, most of the days of the week in German are strikingly similar to English. Zum Beispiel (For example): Montag = Monday Dienstag = Tuesday Mittwoch = Wednesday (Okay, so this one’s pretty different, but Mittwoch literally means mid-week–that makes sense, don’t you [...]