After taking several weeks away from the first draft of my novel, I decided to jump back in. I expected to find all sorts of problems with the story: inconsistencies in the plot, lack of transitions, poor characterization—the works. But what began to stick out at me the most was something to which I’d given
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All through school, I was taught that when one writes a list, no comma is needed after the second last item. For example: Please get milk, eggs, butter, bread, sugar and salt from the grocery store. As far as I knew, a comma would have been unnecessary after the word sugar. Now, I’m not so
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