Insight on your Inkings
Chuffed to have been selected as a judge for this year’s Ink & Insights writing contest, and looking forward to being part of bringing...
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rebeccamcneil46
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
Good Writers Hack Your Brain
An article by Todd Brison on CNBC today has taken me down an interesting rabbithole. He claims that good writing 'hacks into different...
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rebeccamcneil46
- Dec 14, 2020
- 4 min
To split or to not split: grammar, meaning and style
Should sense and stylistic effect hold sway over 'correctness'? In my previous post I discussed the prohibition of the split infinitive,...
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rebeccamcneil46
- Nov 26, 2020
- 5 min
Mind your manners: grammar or etiquette?
Why is it that we instinctively ‘know’ that adjectives come before nouns, but have to LEARN that we shouldn’t end a sentence with a...
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rebeccamcneil46
- Nov 16, 2020
- 6 min
THEIRS FOR THE TELLING
Today’s my first anniversary as a qualified proofreader, and in one short year I’ve encountered more subgenres of fiction than in my...
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