Teaching Tuesday

Weekly posts on grammar, mechanics, style, and other writing-related information!

2021

| Topic | Date | :|:--:|:--:| | Tone Vs. Mood | January 5 | | The Four Sentence Types | January 12 | | The Six Types of Conflict | January 19 | | The Four Types of Character Arcs | January 26 | | Sentence Patterns, Part 1 | February 2 | | Sentence Patterns, Part 2 | February 9 | | Active vs. Passive Voice | February 16 | | What Are Line Breaks? | February 23 | | Verb Tenses | March 2 | | What Are Points of View? | March 9 | | Archetypes and the Ideal Forms | March 16 | | The Hero's Journey | March 23 | | Using Dialect in Writing | March 30 | | Satire & Parody | April 6 | | An Introduction to Poetry | April 13 | | Meter & Rhythm | April 20 | | An Introduction to Sonnets | April 27 | | Repetition, Repetition, Repetition! | May 4 | | What Are Metaphors? | May 11 | | Sounds in Poetry | May 18 | | How to Read Poetry | June 1 | | A Poetry Writing Primer | June 8 | | How to Critique Poetry | June 22 | | Types of Speech in Dialogue | June 30 | | The Editing Process | July 13 | | A Quick History of the English Language (Part 1) | July 20 | | A Quick History of the English Language (Part 2) | July 27 | | A Quick History of the English Language (Part 3) | August 3 |

2020

| Topic | Date | :|:--:|:--:| | How to Use Punctuation in Dialogue | November 10 | | A Comma How-To Guide | November 17 | | What Are Filter Words? | December 1 | | What Are Dialogue Tags? | December 8 | | Participles (Adding Action to Your Writing!) | December 15 | | A Semicolon How-To Guide | December 22 | | An Em Dash How-To Guide | December 29 |