: Re: Capitalize and/or hyphenate "the Start Your Own Business project"? I have come across a situation which drives me mad, and I cannot find any satisfying answer in the Oxford Guide to Style, which

Hyphens indicate a compound adjective: a do-it-yourself project. The hyphens are to let the reader know that all the hyphenated words belong to one thought.

If you're using capitals to denote a proper name, the hyphens are unnecessary. The caps make it a unit.

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: EvilSoup is right. If you've got English grammar and spelling down--the meat and potatoes of any language--then the next step is to practice it. 'Literary' American English is so wonderfully

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: I'd call that development. It covers everything in Dale's excellent list and dmm's couch time.

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: If you can't boil down your novel into a logline (or "elevator pitch," which is how I learned it), then you may actually have a problem with your novel. You've provided the structure of

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: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

: Re: Capitalize and/or hyphenate "the Start Your Own Business project"? I have come across a situation which drives me mad, and I cannot find any satisfying answer in the Oxford Guide to Style, which

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: EvilSoup is right. If you've got English grammar and spelling down--the meat and potatoes of any language--then the next step is to practice it. 'Literary' American English is so wonderfully

: I'd call that development. It covers everything in Dale's excellent list and dmm's couch time.

: If you can't boil down your novel into a logline (or "elevator pitch," which is how I learned it), then you may actually have a problem with your novel. You've provided the structure of

: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

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