The Wandering Blog

cApItAliZatiOn bAsIcS

Dec 01, 2024 • 2 minutes • by Christina Bagni Does the title of this blog post make your brain hurt? Me too. To avoid things like that, let’s go over the basics of capitalization together! When t... Read More

New Speaker, New Paragraph

Jun 30, 2024 • 4 minutes • by K.E. Koontz Let’s focus on an often overlooked aspect of dialogue: how it should be structured within our paragraphs to maintain flow and clarity. We like to throw t... Read More

Wait—what’s an emdash?

Feb 01, 2022 • 3 minutes • by Christina Bagni The emdash is one of the more misunderstood punctuation marks. While you probably learned all about periods, question marks, and commas—and even took a f... Read More

When to Use You and Me vs. You and I

Dec 22, 2019 • 4 minutes • by Qat Wanders I and me may mean the same thing but add a you and we face an age-old issue of you and me versus you and I. Which one to use and when to use it has had peo... Read More

Stop Double Spacing Between Sentences

Dec 17, 2019 • 3 minutes • by Qat Wanders Should I double-space between my sentences? In short . . . NO! Writing sentences that take a reader to fabulous places in their minds; that are thought-pro... Read More

Bullet Points: When and How to Use Them in Your Writing

Nov 20, 2019 • 3 minutes • by Qat Wanders I have a Love/Hate Relationship with Bullet Points. There are many writers who For whatever reason believe That the bullet point is The perfect way to emph... Read More

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