This is quite an unfortunate construction, because it leads to a hiatus in reading: a reader thinks that the sex chromosomes manifest recombination until reading the "suppressed" at the end of the sentence. Worse still is the following example, which I have created with inspiration from a real...
In Brief —France is prepared tojail corporate directorswho don’t comply with the EU’s recently adoptedCorporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Under the new law, failing to submit an audited report could lead to a prison sentence of up to two years. ...
How to say Zhao Wei in English? Pronunciation of Zhao Wei with 4 audio pronunciations, 1 meaning, 5 translations, 2 sentences and more for Zhao Wei.
to. However, it does have a kind of "boyish" tinge to it in that it's softer and less abrasive than its alternative (the more manly way to say "Me/I" will be explained next). Nonetheless, it's perfectly acceptable for a grown man to use this, but only with friends, family, or...
I put a dozen hours or more into articles on search engine land. That’s crazy. That’s not good use of your time. Much better to freeze all those great ideas and insights stuck in your head – share them with the world. It’s okay if the sentence structure isn’t always...
Writing before dawn began as a necessity—I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, Mama—and that was always around five in the morning. Toni Morrison, interviewed by Elissa Schappell & Claudia Brodsky Lacour, 'The Art of Fiction ...
After all, the philosophy evolved over a course of more than five centuries from Zeno of Citium to Marcus Aurelius, and it is still evolving today, after an hiatus of 18 centuries. One of the classic ways to approach Stoicism is through Epictetus’ famous three disciplines: desire/aversion, ...
Not those panicked 40-pages-boiled-down-to-a-sentence generalizations so popular with first-time synopsizers everywhere, but not even trying to replicate the narrative complexity of the book in a space that scanty. Instead, in a 1-page synopsis for a multiple-perspective book, tell the story...
Short story writing helps you keep up your writing habit, or develop one, and they make for a nice break in between larger projects. I always write short stories between novels, and even between drafts of my novels. It keeps me going and puts use to all the random story ideas I had ...
Step 1)Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel. Something like this: “A rogue physicist travels back in time to kill the apostle Paul.” (This is the summary for my first novel, Transgression.) The sentence will serve you forever as a ten-second selling tool. This...