Madeleine Mozley

10 Ways to Identify Your Writing Style

10 Ways to Identify Your Writing Style By Madeleine Mozley When I studied writing in college, there was never a lesson about voice. Setting? Check. Character? Yep. Plot? You bet. I heard endless platitudes about writing dialogue and appealing to the senses. Nearly every writing class spent at least one lecture on the anatomy of …

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7 Grammar Rules You Should Break to Improve Your Writing

7 Grammar Rules You Should Break to Improve Your Writing By Madeleine Mozley CC Image Credit: Edward Simpson I have a love/hate relationship with American English grammatical conventions. By and large, I love and enforce them, as do all of us editors here at Embers Igniting Editing. I appreciate how grammar forms a framework around …

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