Doesn’t the word "oversight," which has two opposite meanings, cause misunderstandings?
Winners’ circle
Are book publishers as smart as your Advice to the Lit-Lorn column implies all the time? Paul Beatty's Booker-winning satirical novel, The Sellout, was turned down by eighteen publishers before finding a home!
Fictionality
Are the words fictional and fictitious interchangeable? If so, why do we need both?
Word hoards
Can you recommend a good dictionary and thesaurus?
Simple and/or scholarly
How can academic writers apply your advice to keep prose simple and direct?
Workshop, or not
Is the creative writing workshop a good way to learn to write?
Facing flak
Is it flak or flack? I looked it up in two dictionaries and they disagree. Why?
Helping or hounding
Am I paranoid, or is my agent trying to hurry me up on my second book?
Adjective queue
When there’s more than one adjective before a noun, does it matter what order they’re in?
Do and don’t, plural
How do you punctuate “dos and donts”?
Nothing for granted
Have you got any tips for a first-timer applying for an arts council writing grant?
The steamy bits
Do you have any advice on writing sex scenes?
Meddling with poetry
Should a poet put up with a poem being edited?
Net work
Where does a Boomer start in marketing her self-published books via the internet?
Proof and reproof
Is it my imagination, or has the proofreading of books gone downhill in the last ten years?
