Sentences: Long is beautiful

If it’s well written, that is.

Who did what? If you are writing about people, put them in the sentence.

"And" or "but" at the start of a sentence

Who says it’s not OK?

The abbreviation “CBC” is not an acronym. Really.

Your prose will flow more smoothly if you narrate things in the order in which they happened.

Sentences can be large, they can contain multitudes—but not literary litter.

When did we stop living in a place and start being “based” there, as in “Jane Geist, based in Toronto”?

Stop, look and listen before you use the verb to see.

Use constructions like these sparingly: “She found herself shouting at him”; “Suddenly I found myself shopping in an X-rated video store.”