Talking Tools: Writing Basics

Talking Tools: Writing Basics

This started out as a forum post on Mythic Scribes, but a few days later the exact same issue came up on KBoards: “You guys always say ‘study the craft,’ but what does that mean, exactly?” I have had the following conversation with so many...
Stitches and Glue

Stitches and Glue

When historians look back on my writing career, they will likely concentrate on this post, right here, as the moment that I first officially pissed on the leg of the establishment. Normally when I say things like what I’m about to say, I just drop into the front...
Markov and Me

Markov and Me

MS Office updated just now. And Word’s grammar checker got even stupider. Now the subject-verb agreement is all jacked up: if you insert a negative adverb, it modifies the verb to correlate with a third-person subject pronoun. This means that auto-correct turns...