proofreading – Andrew M. Friday

Friday’s Findings: Red and Black

When I recently reviewed the final draft of my novella, Traption, I used this trick to keep track of where I leave off when I

“An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes.” F. Scott Fitzgerald As the author of classics such as The Great Gatsby and This

High school cliques appear in most young adult fiction. And in real life. Yes, they are tropes found in 13 Reasons Why, The Hate You

Semicolons. I think of them as the yellow on a traffic stoplight. But I admit it. I love using the semicolon. When I write a

NOTE: I dusted off some notes I took for a webinar, How to Revise Your NaNo Novel, from January 2016. Grant Faulkner hosted the segment

I don’t want to rehash what you’ve heard and discovered for yourself as a writer: “Most of writing is rewriting”; “Show don’t Tell”; “Use spell

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