HOT DESSERT

OOPS! I just found a sentence that ended "... an entrée, side, drink, and desert." I hope they meant dessert, not desert.

FOUND ONLINE: Riggs has been stunned by the support, especially given the difficult economic times." That might be changed it to "The support has stunned Riggs, especially given the difficult economic times."

It's a more powerful way of saying it.

ALSO FOUND ONLINE: “I can recommend those individuals very highly to whomever is going to be our new head coach,” Wellman said. “Each of them has done a very, very good job in their particular areas."

You can't change "whomever" to "whoever" here because it's a quote, but whoever is right in this case.

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More EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!