by Courtenay | Nov 28, 2012 | Pet Peeves in Writing
I’d like to take a moment to share some things about Afterward, Onward and Toward, three hotly contested words. Do you put an ‘s’ on the end or not?? Afterward, afterwards. Onward, onwards. Toward, towards. It’s enough to make you want to tear...
by Courtenay | Oct 8, 2012 | Pet Peeves in Writing
In the course of writing and preparing a story for publication a writer has to swallow some pride. As much as we’d all love our fingers to produce literary gold, gushing forth into our word processors, it really doesn’t happen like that. I know that many...
by Courtenay | Sep 14, 2012 | General Ramblings, Pet Peeves in Writing
I really do. My daughter is in her second year and I really wish I had taken Latin in school myself. The number of things she can pick apart and understand because she has learned the root words amazes me. I think it’s pretty cool that she can now do this for...
by Courtenay | Aug 29, 2012 | Pet Peeves in Writing
I think that everyone I know has their own version of the pet peeve when they are reading another’s work. My husband can politely be called a grammar Nazi while one of my dearest friends will put up with just about anything if the story is good. That’s not...
