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I no rite gud, but I try!

2007-04-25

Good morning Boys and Girls!

Raining here, not hard; just a morning shower I'd guess.

I'm in that annoying stage right now where I spend every spare minute editing. So far? Over a thousand simple corrections, and that's before I change a single sentence substantially.

Get this: In twelve places I actually used the wrong character's name. For instance I'd say "And Snoopy said..." instead of "And Charlie Brown said..."

I've found thirty-five places where I used the word "and" instead of "an."

Fourteen places where "though" became "thought," (or vice versa.)

Hundreds of misplaced punctuation marks, and hundreds more where I used the wrong ones - the most common being inserting a period where I meant to place a comma. like right here.

And the most difficult problems for me to catch? Easy. Especially in long sentences, I have a very difficult time noticing when I've gradually switched tenses.

I really wish I'd paid more attention in in English class...

Oh yeah, see in the sentence above where I've repeated the word "in?"

Must have caught a couple hundred occurrences where I've done that, and frigging spell check doesn't catch it either. Wonder how many I've still missed?

Anyone ever use the grammar check feature? I tried. I really did. Every sentence ended up sounding like it had been written by Queen Elizabeth's speech writer. I mean... Yuck!

It is fun though. I find myself laughing at me a lot, which is never bad.

Want to find a whole new level of humility? Write something really long - and then correct it yourself.



Be good to everyone.

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Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-04-25)
Punctuation????? what's that.........? ;)

Doe (2007-04-25)
I thanks yoo rites reel guud.

surrogate (2007-04-25)
Wait a minute. I don't want to BE perfect, I just want my story to read perfectly. Being perfect would be damn boring.

figjam (2007-04-25)
If you had gotten it completely right the first time then you'd be perfect. Looks like that's out the window which is not really a bad thing because perfect people are insufferable and have no friends. If you wanted though, I could give you lessons. I have perfected perfection.

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