You’re typing along in Microsoft Word and suddenly…your quotation marks are upside down. What happened? Microsoft Word 2016 and later versions likes to “automatically detect” what language you’re using, and change a bunch of tools to match the language you’re using–including changing your right-side-up quotation marks to upside-down ones. However, Word doesn’t always get the… Continue reading How to Fix Upside-Down Quotation Marks in Word
Month: March 2021
What Details to Use in Fiction
Introduction So you’re writing a story and it’s good. But your early readers are saying, “This story feels really thin” or “I liked the story but I had a hard time getting into it” or “there were parts where I was confused.” There are a few different areas where things might be going wrong, but… Continue reading What Details to Use in Fiction