Grammar: Imperative
That imperative (and commanding) sentence is about more than orders and includes invites, offers, requests, negatives, advice, and warnings in this Grammar Explanation from KD Did It.
Category: Self-Editing
Word Confusion: Independence versus Independents
Independents, people like writers, love the independence of their work, the freedom to write in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Clench versus Clinch
You have a better chance of clinching a sellable novel if you clench that red pen and get to proofreading in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Sundae versus Sunday
You can eat a sundae any time at all, but Sunday only comes once a week in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Meritorious versus Meretricious
Writing a novel is meritorious. Not proofing it is meretricious in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Compel versus Impel
While it’s better if a self-editing writer feels impelled to proof their work, they sometimes have to be compelled in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Muscle versus Mussel
I plan on eating some mussels while I watch the boys flex their muscles on Venice Beach in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Flaunt versus Flout
He flouted his contempt for the law by flaunting his parking tickets in my face in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Bight vs Bite vs Byte
It’ll be bits and bytes of memory to create those bites in your story that grab the reader’s attention in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Bridal versus Bridle
Self-editing writers can congratulate themselves over their own version of a bridal when they successfully put a bridle on those runaway words.