
July Meeting Takes on Strunk & White
At the July 11 Sarasota Fiction Writers meeting, five of our members presented some of the highlights of Strunk & White’s famous guidebook The Elements of Style. The meeting kicked off with a round table discussion of “hopefully” and its common, inappropriate usage in today’s vernacular. Bill Carrigan then reviewed Strunk & White’s guidelines on punctuation and other grammar, including the proper application of hyphens, dashes, and comma placement. Bill was followed by Bob Sp