ExcitingWriting Advisory

Musings on words and writing. Advice that can help you become a better writer.

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Exciting Writing, Commas, and Lists

“Lists and commas,
Lists and commas,
Go together with lots of drama,
This I tell you, Brother,
You can’t have one…

An ode to English plurals

My mother tells me I struggled with spelling as a child; however, she needn’t remind me. I remember very well. Then, directly after college, when…

Exciting Writing: This Month: The Colon!

Colons are used in Latin and in Romance languages pretty much the same way we use them in English. (Colons caught on in English about…

The Semicolon, Semi-explained

Once upon a time, a period married a colon and gave birth to a semicolon. The semicolon had some of the characteristics of a period…

Rising Above the Comma, Revisited

Last month’s EWA prompted a number of complementary messages and a few suggestions for improvements.

Tom Schneider found two typographical errors. Particularly distressing to me…

Rising Above the Common Comma

I have wanted to delve into grammar with my ExcitingWriting Advisories for some time but had many reasons for not going there. How much can…

Exciting Writing- Funny Words

As you may already know, I enjoy words and find them very entertaining. In past ExcitingWriting Advisories, I have shared with you words I love.…

Principles of Well-Formed Paragraphs.

Contributed by Chuck Lustig, of ExcitingWriting Communications

Well-formed paragraphs have a unified focus. While reading well-formed paragraphs, you never wonder what their subjects…