(Slightly modified) snippets from Associated Press Stylebook 2002, typed up for my easy reference.

An essential phrase is a word or group of words critical to the reader's understanding of what the author had in mind.

A nonessential phrase provides more information about something. Although the information would be helpful to the reader's ( Read more... )

(Slightly modified) snippets from Associated Press Stylebook 2002, typed up for my easy reference.

Both types of clauses provide additional information about a word or phrase in the sentence.

The difference between them is that the essential clause cannot be eliminated without changing the meaning of the sentence -- it so restricts the meaning of ( Read more... )

(Slightly modified) snippets from Associated Press Stylebook 2002, typed up for my easy reference.

IN A SERIES:
Use a comma before the concluding conjunction in a complex series of phrases: The main points to consider are whether the athletes are skillful enough to compete, whether they have the stamina to endure the training, and whether they ( Read more... )

Originally posted on February 8, 2008

Seen at kc_anathema

1. Open my IJ or my userinfo.

2. After the images finished loading, copy & paste this code into the url:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS. ( Read more... )

Originally posted on Feb. 13, 2007

Link to manage settings: to turn off that uber-annoying, irksome Contextual Hover Menu.

Go here to get notifications when someone friends you. You can also stalk people and communities from here. Yay-ness.

Manage tags link
If you want to give your friends the option to tag your entries.

Your friends' default ( Read more... )

Signed up for the February issue of Shousetsu Bang Bang (bb_shousetsu), "Short and Sweet." Liam Harris x Raphael Thompson. Pretentious British names FTW! \o/

To psych myself up, have read Resonant's How to Write a Sex Scene =P Will look over the other 4 links too ( Read more... )

Originally posted Feb. 2006 at lilian_cho

( Mouse-less Tutorial )

Originally posted at lilian_cho here.

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