Prepare for good writing: All ready vs. already

Often I see these two homophones mixed up; some writers seem to believe that like after all, there’s only one right word and that it has duo meanings. That isn’t the case.“All ready” means “entirel…

Three potential ways to end your story

In every story, there comes a turning point or an ultimate moment in which the situation has become so intolerable that the main character must take a decisive step and emerge victorious. This scen…

Good advice: Council vs. counsel vs. consul

Similar pronunciations often lead to confused spellings. Such is the case with these three words.A council is an administrative body, such as a city council. Hence, The Los Angeles City Council app…

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Package of tips: Wrap up, wrapup and wrap-up

Here’s some advice that more editors ought to put a little bow on and give to more writers: the difference between wrap up, wrapup and wrap-up.Wrap up is a verb that means …

Don’t confuse readers with misplaced modifiers

English is a word-order language, meaning where a word appears in a sentence helps establish the sentence’s meaning for users. Sometimes in a conversation this word order can be broken, as the part…