Rules for copy editing
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clich
General discussions from members.
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clich
A buddy of mine set up a little internet thing that turns documents into Adobe Postscript (.pdf) files. I have tried it with Word docs and it works great. I think it will work with Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations as well.
His idea was to give away a free trial .pdf document that would have a watermark on it. Then he would charge a small fee for the "real" version without the watermark.
However, he is giving away the service for free while he tests it out! Give it a try and see if you like it.
[quote]National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.[/quote]
I'm seriously thinking of doing this, this year. Anyone else game?
Dave,
For some reason I haven't been able to send you a message the last few days. It keeps getting bounced back with your address supposedly having "permanent errors".
Let's just go ahead and set a chat time that you, me, and Anneliese can do, and get a message to the group. We'll nail some things down about the universe and move on to the next step.
Has anyone written a "successful" query letter and/or synopsis that he/she would like to post/share?
Here's an article from the Today's (6/14/04) New York Time's:
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/science/14plane.html?8hpib[/url]
Any comments?
It must be the weather, where is everyone? I know I have my reasons but the rest of you must be plain lazy. (Do I really need a smiley after that?) Or are the weekly chats satisfying our need to communicate?
Since I brought it up, how is your writing affected by the weather? If you're snowed in and it's dark by 5PM in it's easy to find the time, but how do you write with the birds chirping and the grass growing?
I'm from Edmonton. Free beer (Molson of course) to any American who knows where that is without me having to say "It's in Canada."
Bonus beer: which city has the largest indoor mall in the world, and what is it called? Hint: it's not the Mall of America in Minnie.
Now I'm living in Richmond, Virginia, in the US, eh?
How about y'all?
(Edit: given recent events I need to make the disclaimer that NO OFFENSE is meant to any Americans in this post. Just having a little good-natured cross-border fun. Feel free to make fun of Canadians in the same manner. As the only Canuck in a building full of Americans I get it all the time.)
Very nicely done. Some great resource material for anyone looking at an alien encounter type story. I thought the Japanese were more xenophobic but they seemed to welcome the Americans.
/cheer MIT for this great job
I hope they do more history like this
I would like to configue this forum to list the newest posts first. When I select that at the bottom it works but only for that time. It does not use that as a default. Is that possible and if so how do I configure that?