The second thing I learn is about grammer, and there are two things to it. The first thing is that we need to make sure we are using the same tense inside the story, this is quite obvious but this is a really common mistake that writes will have. The second thing is that well is an adverb and good is an adjective. So well is only use when we are describing a verb or another adverb, for example: she draws well; and good is use as an adjective to describe other noun, for example: he is a good man. This is another common mistake that people will make as they are writing, so it is to effect and affect. Most of the effect is a noun and affect is a verb.
The third thing I learned is about punctuation, including comma and apostrophe. Comma was invented during Shakespeare time to help the actors to known when to pause in the story, so we should only use comma when the sentence is too long and the reader needs to take a break from reading it, but a period can be use if the sentence is completed. Now for possession apostrophe, we write 's after the noun to express their possesion to something, but if the name ends with a s already, then you don't need to add another 's to show their possesion, all you need is an apostrophe, for example Betty's and Jones'.
Something else that was brought up during our discussion is this question, "Should the beginning word inside a quotation but after the comma be capitalized?" And we were confused about this, so I did a little research and found out that the answer is yes, you should capitalize the letter after the comma in a quotation mark. Here is one link that demonstrates the basic rules for punctuation:
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