Let’s Be Clear, Period

Lynne Truss, the respected author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves , once said: “There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.”
I hope you’re all sober because we’re going to get into this.
Let me start with a meme that has become popular on social media.
We invited two strippers, JFK and Stalin.
Does this sentence refer to four people in total or are JFK and Stalin about to get naked?
It’s difficult to be sure when it’s written like that.
But if you read:
We invited two strippers, JFK, and Stalin.
Here, you could be pretty sure there are four people. Pretty sure. But you could still have some doubts.
If you got rid of the bad writing and read:…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/18/lets-be-clear-period/

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Creativity in Brevity

It’s very difficult to tell a story in just a few hundred words, to fit in all the elements that go into a good, rounded tale, to develop a plot with a setting, character development and a theme, for example.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/13/creativity-in-brevity/

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Obsess Much? Welcome to Your Best Fiction Ingredients

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https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/14/obsess-much-welcome-to-your-best-fiction-ingredients/

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