Tag: grammar

• March 2, 2015

  Hard lessons in writing: English is bizarre.

  The very first thing I started working on as a baby writer was grammar. That and spelling. As a thirteen-year-old with a typewriter, I thought that the most important thing […]

• December 28, 2014

  Deliberate flubbing.

  When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]