by Jill Williamson | Oct 3, 2018 | Punctuation
Once upon a time, there was an author named Jill Williamson. Jill was a blogger on a website called goteenwriters.com. She had worked as an editor for a few years, then became an author and a writing teacher. As she read the manuscripts of many beginning writers, she...
by Jill Williamson | Jul 5, 2013 | Writing
Jill Williamson is a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. She writes weird books for teens in lots of weird genres like, fantasy (Blood of Kings trilogy), science fiction (Replication), and dystopian (The Safe Lands trilogy). Find Jill...
by Jill Williamson | Apr 19, 2013 | Writing
It’s time for another installment of Punctuation 101 with your host Jill Williamson.*raging applause*Today we’re going to talk about quotation marks. I’ve critiqued many a manuscript in which the author used quotation marks incorrectly. In fact, I...
by Jill Williamson | Feb 8, 2013 | Writing
by Jill Marie Williamson I, Duchess of CarmI just have to confess to you that sometimes when I write these Punctuation 101 posts, I have to review, and this time, I learned something new. I feel tall.So here are some rules about apostrophes.PossessivesTo turn a noun...
by Jill Williamson | Jan 11, 2013 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonWelcome to yet another installment of Punctuation 101, the posts that are all about punctuation. I’m your host, Jill Williamson. And today, we’re talking about dashes and ellipses. What’s the difference, you ask? Well, let’s...
by Jill Williamson | Dec 7, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonIt’s time for another episode of Punctuation 101, where we talk about something that seems super boring but will really help you out as a writer more than you care to admit. Are you ready?Today’s...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 2, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonIt’s time for another punctuation lesson. I know… boring! But I see colons misused often in the manuscripts of new writers, along with semicolons, dashes, and ellipses. I promise to post only one punctuation lesson a month.Today’s...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
By Jill WilliamsonPunctuation had never been my favorite thing. But I needed to learn the rules to look like a professional author. So do you! Trust me. One mistake here or there won’t get you rejected. But it your manuscript is filled with punctuation errors and...
by Jill Williamson | Aug 17, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonThis may be review for some of you. But I’d like to go over this for those of you who have some confusion about when to use a comma or period or what when writing dialogue.First of all, there are two types of dialogue tags: “said” tags and...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 19, 2018 | Editing, Punctuation
I spent much of the summer working on my Punctuation 101 book. You may remember that I wrote some “Punctuation 101” posts many years ago on this blog. Or maybe not you don’t remember at all! (It was a long time ago, after all.) Back then, many of you...
