Photo by RDNE Here’s a sentence from a thriller manuscript we once edited: “Dripping with blood, Marcus watched the knife clatter to the floor.” Did you catch it? Pause first and read that again. Who’s dripping with blood? According to this sentence, it’s Marcus, not the knife. Marcus is just standing there, casually drenched, watching cutlery hit the ground like it’s a Tuesday. The author meant the knife was bloody, but the syntax said otherwise, and suddenly our dark, atmos