Grammar Time
In keeping with my unintentional theme on what to look for when editing/revising our Romance novels, I'd like to discuss the issue of misspelled, misused, and misinterpreted occurrences in our work. And, yes, none more so than in my own. This isn't a gripe post and more of a help post (I hope). In all honesty, I don't look at this as complaining or wanting to sound better than some and more of an attempt to help elevate our genre to a higher, more acceptable status than what it is right now. We deserve it. Heroin vs. Heroine An opioid painkiller vs a Female hero Blond vs Blonde This derives from French, and in keeping with their gender-based language, it should remain that in French, blond is masculine and blonde is feminine. So, a man has blond hair and a woman has blonde hair. Damn it vs Dammit Not entirely sure how this one got started or even why. Research indicates that this is profoundly American, and that our Southern neighbors even go...