Contractions – To use or not to use
2 Comments - Posted 07/12/2020 in On Writing
Basically, contractions, sometimes called ‘short forms’, commonly combine a pronoun or noun and a verb. We use contractions (I’m, we’re, they’ll) all the time, mostly in speech, and we do it without thinking.
1 Comment - Posted 23/08/2013 in On Writing
There are lots of things authors should not do when writing, like indiscriminate shifting point of view between characters, churn out your novel without a detailed outline, frequent usage of the same word, overusing slang…there are others.