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Professor Kathryn Sutherland (who teaches at Oxford University) recently studied over 1,000 original handwritten pages of Jane Austen’s writing and discovered the author was a poor speller, often misused punctuation, and committed a wealth of other “sins” that earn a beginning writer rejection letters from publishers. (For more about Austen’s writing problems, visit NPR.) Of […]

Over my years working in the publishing industry (wearing writer, editor, or artist hat depending on the job), I’ve discovered that problems which seem insurmountable can often be corrected with what I jokingly refer to as the no-problem-is-too-big-to-run-away-from fix. I just toss out the problem. For example, have you ever started a sentence that sort […]