Dear Geist,If you aren’t tired of answering questions about writing essays, can you give our not-yet-professional but serious writing club a concise definition?
Corners
Dear Geist,Dear Geist,Is cater-cornered a real word, meaning diagonally? I grew up with it, but I don’t find it in my dictionary, though kitty-corner and catty-corner both get the nod.
Crafty
Dear Geist,When did people stop writing books and start “crafting” them? Should I be crafting my novel rather than writing it? How does a writer go about crafting?
Those darlings
Dear Geist,Once you realize that you have to kill your darlings, as a famous writer once said, when exactly is it time to kill the darlings?
Differences
Dear Geist,Which is correct: “different than,” “different from” or “different to”? I jumped on the Internet bus to sort it out myself and gave up half an hour later, more confused than when I got on. Help!
Glitz, Glam, Ink
Dear Geist,You believe that writing and publishing a successful novel is more exciting than being in a movie or playing with a hot band, right?
Pandemic swerve
Dear Geist,Given this global pandemic, should I revise the romantic details of my YA novel?
Genre roulette
Dear Geist,Should I rewrite my novel as a screenplay?
That Which
Dear Geist,Can someone give me a quick simple rule of when to use which and/or that?
Other Writing
Dear Geist,Have you got some advice on writing personal material about the coronavirus, as it unfolds?
What It Takes
Dear Geist,Am I fooling myself about becoming a writer?
Writing-in-place
Dear Geist,Have you got any seasonal tips for a writer stuck like molasses in a small corner of a small bedroom during self-quarantine time?
What's with WHO?
Dear Geist,Don't you think the World Health Organization has gone too far in urging us to dump “social distance” and say “physical distance” instead?
Language and Art
Dear Geist,When a group of people perform a dance with a beginning, middle and end, and no one speaks or holds up signs, isn't it really a dance, rather than a play?
Which coronavirus?
Dear Geist,What is the most accurate, up-to-date name of the COVID-19?
Floral Quarrel
Dear Geist,Why does the word fuchsia have so many letters, when gazillions of other words are being pared down to include only letters that are pronounced in the spoken word?
