"Write," said Joe.

Trying to get my head around this and that.

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I am making an executive decision to keep the title "Write," said Joe. Because even though it is a title, and "said" should be capitalized, I like the way it reads like a line of dialog in a story. Also because it took me a long time, many revisions, commas, periods, exclamation points, to come to "Write," said Joe. … [Read more...] about Write said or Said Joe

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I am very serious about words and language. 1. As a second language learner and speaker of English as a Second Language (ESL) I don't want to make a non-native language speaker mistake. And yes there is second-grade teacher inflicted ridicule and trauma associated with that, let's call it, fear. There is also a degree of disdain that I hold for unilingual speakers of the … [Read more...] about Words and Language