Top posts of 2015

Hannah McCall 11 Comments

It’s 2016.

Here are last year’s top 10 posts on this blog (according to my stats page) in case you missed them. You’re welcome.

  1. I am now on Royal Holloway’s register of approved proofreaders I reach the heady heights of approved-proofreader status.
  2. Split infinitives Use them.
  3. ‘I.e.’ and ‘e.g.’ are not interchangeable They do not mean the same thing.
  4. ‘Its’ and ‘it’s’ Its is a possessive pronoun – no apostrophe needed.
  5. Punctuation..? by User Design An author asked me to review their book on punctuation.
  6. Paragraphs I ask writers to use paragraphs. Please.
  7. Homophones The summary post for my series on words that sound the same.
  8. Defenestration An interesting word.
  9. Ending a sentence with a preposition Do it.
  10. Proofreading advice: take a break Advice to help writers spot errors.

If there were any posts you particularly liked, I’d love to hear from you.

I hope the new year is treating you well, and I hope you will join me for many more posts to come!

11 thoughts on “Top posts of 2015”

  2. I liked your post on paragraphs best. As a counterweight, perhaps, to those who confront you with a ‘wall of text,’ there are others who seem to want to break grafs at the drop of a hat. All new dialogue gets a new paragraph, even if it follows a character beat that was meant to replace a dialogue tag. Nor can you have character A dialogue, description of character A’s actions or thoughts, followed by more character A dialogue. That’s broken into three paragraphs. It drives me nuts.

    But no one particularly cares. I’d better get some more books out there so I have the literary equivalent to street cred. 🙂

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  3. A good year in all! I do enjoy your posts (particularly that they’re short, easy to understand and very useful) – I very much agree with the paragraphs as I am also daunted by large blocks of text 🙂 Happy New Year!

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