sentence level revision

  • Dialogue Tags vs. Action Tags

    Today, the writing community on Threads was full of discussion about the proper punctuation marks for action tags. After reading through some of the comments, I decided to write a quick post about the difference between dialogue tags and action… Continue reading

  • Sentence Level Revision 5: Personal Filler Words

    Filler Words You’ve probably heard that you should revise to remove “filler words.” There are whole lists of filler words that are commonly overused. For example, “just” is often unnecessary. So is “very.” (There are more colorful ways of indicating… Continue reading

  • Sentence Level Revision 4: Stronger Verbs

    As things get weirder on social media, I’m going through my old Tweets and deleting snippets that I posted as examples of Sentence Level Revision. Since I don’t want to lose all my examples, I’m going to share more of… Continue reading

  • Sentence Level Revision 3: Comma splices

    Today I’m going to talk about one of my pet peeves. I don’t know why comma splices bother me so much, but they do. When I see a traditionally-published book with multiple comma splices, I tend to think worse of… Continue reading

  • Sentence Level Revision 2: Dialogue Tags

    Have you noticed that people in the writing community sometimes have strong feelings about dialogue tags? Some people hate them. Some people defend them. And some people insist one should never use a word other than “said” in a dialogue… Continue reading

  • Sentence Level Revision 1

    Over the last year, I’ve gotten into the habit of posting examples of revised sentences on Twitter. With Twitter on the fritz again, this seems like a good time to move some of my “Sentence Level Revision” work over here.… Continue reading