Today's Editing Tips

Keep paragraphs short. Usually a paragraph in a story for a newspaper
is no more than a couple sentences.

In the opening of a story, identify the location and make sure you identify the people in the story with their relevance.
"...store owners Bona Jordan and Bob Adams..."

After the Who, Why, Where, When are taken care of in those first few paragraphs, toss in a good quote.

Here are your style/mechanics tips for the day:

The word "each" always takes a singular verb.

Highway is spelled out with the number.

----Courtesy of Deb Hurley and the story about the Pine Emporium