Some helpful (?) Writing Tips
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Roaming around the internet, I found some tips that might be helpful to my fellow writers (*g*):
*Remember Commas kill:
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
*I before E…
Except when eight feisty neighbors seize a surfeit of weighty heifers…
*Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
And these are two of my favorite pieces on writing - from our own![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hagsrus! (I know I've linked them before - but we do have some new writers this time around who may not have read them) Enjoy!
Link: Punctuated Professionals
Link: It’s All Lays
Roaming around the internet, I found some tips that might be helpful to my fellow writers (*g*):
*Remember Commas kill:
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
*I before E…
Except when eight feisty neighbors seize a surfeit of weighty heifers…
*Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
And these are two of my favorite pieces on writing - from our own
hagsrus! (I know I've linked them before - but we do have some new writers this time around who may not have read them) Enjoy!Link: Punctuated Professionals
Link: It’s All Lays
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Date: 2013-07-21 09:34 pm (UTC)Both 'seize' and 'heifer' were previously pronounced with an 'ay' sound. Best advice I ever got for pronouncing Middle English was to pretend I was drunk.
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Date: 2013-07-21 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-21 09:54 pm (UTC)mead: chunter chunter chunter
friend: chunter chunter chunter
mead and friend: [pause for thought]
second friend talking to other people next to us: ... [something we both misheard. General gawps.]
friend: Er, sorry. Big arse-fucking bag?
second friend: what?
friend: big. arse-fucking. What is this conversation? It sounds great.
second friend: ohhh! no no no.
mead and friend: [unenlightened]
friend: not 'big. arse-fucking'. No no. 'this huge, big-arse, fucking bag. Like, you know, big-arse. Talking about the fucking bag. The hyphen's between big and arse. Not arse and fucking.
[general disappointment]
third friend: ...and that, guys, is why grammar is important.
I love my friends, I really do.
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Date: 2013-07-21 11:22 pm (UTC)Mmmmmmm, Grandma...
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Date: 2013-07-21 11:38 pm (UTC)Grandma was delicious.
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Date: 2013-07-22 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-22 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-22 02:28 am (UTC)Glad you enjoy the links!
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Date: 2013-07-22 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-22 09:28 am (UTC)English spelling is notorious - and makes me feel despair every time my attention is drawn to the strict phonics system being rammed down my grandson's throat in school.
The lie/lay thing drives me insane and there is frequent confusion in published works where editors should have known better, as well as in fanfic where writers can be forgiven for not being sure of the rules. I've found I can accept the wrong usage in dialogue - because a lot of people ignore rules in speech - but not in narrative.
I'm alright Jack!
Date: 2013-07-22 05:19 pm (UTC)... nevertheless, the links are excellent!
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Date: 2013-07-22 07:07 pm (UTC)That works most of the time.
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Date: 2013-07-22 08:39 pm (UTC)Except when eight feisty neighbors seize a surfeit of weighty heifers…
Lol That reminds me of that QI episode where Stephen Fry was trying to explain how that rule doesn't really work. :D
I bet Grandma tastes wonderful. :D
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Date: 2013-07-23 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-23 12:36 am (UTC)English spelling does have some odd "rules" and way too many exceptions to them!
Re: I'm alright Jack!
Date: 2013-07-23 12:39 am (UTC)I find I've forgotten a lot of the things I learned back in grammar school - as you, having beta'd my work well know! *g* But it does come back - with a bit of help!
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Date: 2013-07-25 07:58 pm (UTC)