Tag: Chicago Manual of Style

Read blog posts that mention The Chicago Manual of Style, the fiction industry standard when it comes to grammar and usage rules.

What Is Copyediting?

March 8, 2021

Table of Contents Prospective clients often ask what is included in a copyedit from me. The answer is a number of things—so many that whenever

How to Write Interrupted Dialogue

May 6, 2019

Table of Contents As a writer, I love dialogue. As an editor… Well, my feelings are a little less fuzzy, especially when it comes to

How to Use Commas

March 5, 2019

Table of Contents When I first started writing and publishing fiction, which was when I first encountered editors, the two pieces of punctuation I struggled

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