by Sebastian Castro | Dec 21, 2020 | Tips & Techniques
Punctuation Puzzles: The Popular Em Dash And Its Uncommon Cousin, The En Dash Last month we discussed the rules regarding the uses of hyphens, that shortest of horizontal dashes (-) found on the key to the right of the zero on your computer keyboard. This month we...
by Sebastian Castro | Dec 2, 2020 | Tips & Techniques
Punctuation Puzzles: A Dash Or A Hyphen? Perhaps the most misunderstood punctuation mark is the lowly dash. For starters, there really is no such thing as a simple dash. There actually are two types of dashes, the em dash and the en dash. Then there is that short...
by Sebastian Castro | Nov 6, 2020 | Tips & Techniques
Correct Use of Quotation Marks Punctuation is our favorite topic, right? Well… maybe not. Nevertheless, we writers need to master the ins and outs of punctuation if we wish to master our craft. So, in the spirit of learning good punctuation, we’ll be examining...
by Sebastian Castro | Sep 25, 2020 | Tips & Techniques
If You Are A Writer, You Also Are An Editor Let’s start by taking a quick tour through two editorial worlds. We begin with a rule used to edit newswriting. Maybe you’ve heard of the ABC rule, as it applies to what is commonly known as news reporting. If you were an...
by Sebastian Castro | Aug 28, 2020 | Tips & Techniques
Climbing Mount Everest… Climbers aspiring to ascend Mount Everest don’t just take a few weeks off work, fly to Nepal, travel overland to one of the Everest base camps, meet their guides and start climbing. Rather, mountaineers preparing to climb the mountain...
by Sebastian Castro | Jun 28, 2020 | Inspiration, Story, Tips & Techniques
The Privilege of Audience Have you ever mused on the great privilege it is to have someone, anyone, read what you write? Let’s harken back a bygone age. We’ll call it “B.E.”—for “before email.” Before email became our primary means of...
by Sebastian Castro | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog, Inspiration, Story, Tips & Techniques
The Power of Story Welcome to Summit University’s monthly Writers’ Guild Tips & Techniques newsletter. We anticipate this issue to be the first of many! This month’s topic is the power of story. No matter if we write fiction or non-fiction, effective writing...
