BOOK DESCRIPTION: At readers’ request, here are the first 50 issues from “Demystifying Writers’ Demons” compiled into one handy booklet.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFUSING WORDS
1 All right/all ready/already
2 Assure/ensure/insure
3 Pluralizing compound nouns
4 Farther/further
5 Flaunt/flout
6 Its/it’s
7 Lie/lay
8 Quit/quite/quiet
9 Sight/site/cite
10 There/their/they’re
11 Which/that
12 Whose/who’s & who/whom
13 Wreak havoc
14 Your/you’re

PUNCTUATION
15 Apostrophes summary
16 Apostrophes -contractions
17 Apostrophes - possessives
18 Apostrophes - plural forms
19 Commas with adjectives
20 Commas with complex sent.
21 Commas with compound sent.
22 Commas in series
23 Commas with “too”
24 Dialogue punctuation
25 Hyphens
26 Quotes within quotes
27 Spacing in punctuation
28 Title punctuation

CAPITALIZATION
29 Subsitute names
30 Titles

USAGE
31 Awhile/a while
32 Bad/badly
33 Beginning with and & but
34 Best for last
35 Bring/take
36 Be verbs: passive/active
37 Be verbs: here / there
38 Be verbs: show don’t tell
39 “Can’t help but”
40 Cavalry & congratulations
41 Fewer/less
42 Myself misuse
43 Number agreement - pronouns
44 Odd plurals: mouses/louses
45 Prepositions - ending sentence
46 Redundancies
47 Sesquipedality (big words)
48 Sexism avoidance
49 Wake/awake/awaken
50 Wrong verb endings:
orientated, spaded, prophesized

Appendix
Definitions - Sentence Structure
Parts of Speech & Functions