I always speak up in my online writing workshop when someone talks about “flushing out” a scene or a character. It’s fleshing out, people!

My agent says I need a strong antagonist in my novel. I disagree.

Can workshops really make my writing better?

Is it The Globe and Mail, as it says on the newspaper itself, or is it the Globe and Mail, i.e., “the” not part of the actual title?

My writing TA took marks off my essay because I wrote “convince” instead of “persuade.”

A magazine is interested in my manuscript of an interview, but they want me to cut a third of the text by "streamlining" the interviewee's words.

If I post a short story on my blog, does that make it a published story?

Is there some way for me to post a 9-panel comic on my Tumblr blog so that no one can steal it?

Three people who read a draft of my novel said they had some trouble keeping track of the characters.

Why are we supposed to put schadenfreude in italics, but not billet-doux?

Are the really good writers born, or made?

How do I differentiate between multiple points of view, past events and internal monologue without confusing the reader?

Is it okay to write dialogue without using quotation marks?

I have been reading fiction since I was young, but how should I start writing? Where can I learn to write a good article or personal essay?

How do I register a copyright for my manuscript, a collection of personal essays?

Which is correct, 4:00, four o’clock or 1600 h?