I’m the woman who will talk about punctuation at dinner, to my husband’s horror and my dad’s dismay. So,  let’s talk about commas. Bloody, beastly, buggery bastards. Currently, I’m trying to keep four sets of comma rules straight (American, British, German-before-the-spelling-reform, German-after-the-spelling-reform) and often fail miserably. At least, I will find new comma errors each [...]

I discovered Roy Peter Clark’s “50 Writing Tools” when they were still available as essays online. By now they have been turned into a book. And it’s still one of my all time favourite resources for writing and rewriting. Since I’ve just shocked persefone_core with my thoroughness as a beta-reader (sorry, dear!), I figured this [...]