There are days when the writing business makes as much sense as Lewis Carroll, and when pondering grammar rules, it’s best to keep his advice in mind: Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. Or, that’s grammar.
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I was thinking about what gets me hooked into reading a new book when I don’t know the author, and I have no expectations of the story. There are a zillion little signs at the beginning of a novel that … Continue reading