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  first T-day dinner this year

  by Hortensia in

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  i live in a seniors-only apartment complex.

  management has a tendency to patronize us, which is interesting and rather entertaining.

  today we had our annual t-day dinner for the seniors, catered by a local church.

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  Thanks, Hortensia, for that interesting story.

  Yes, self-publishing is a gateway to the literary world for us Average Joes; however, my experience has been that "A.J" is anxious to get his work before the public and feels it enough to have his wife proofread for him. No disparagement intended re wifey's abilities, but editing -- as you well know -- is more than correcting a misspelled word or two . . . I'm combing through an already published tome (wonderful story) and hoping to correct all the errors before the second publishing occurs!

  Good seeing you!

  CC

  BTW: I'll fight to have dessert first!!!
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  first T-day dinner this year

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i live in a seniors-only apartment complex.

  management has a tendency to patronize us, which is interesting and rather entertaining.

  today we had our annual t-day dinner for the seniors, catered by a local church.

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  compound complex

  Hi again, Hortensia:

  I was away on a cyber edit and returned to find you here!

  I live on Writers' Row and am personal editor to many. The lady in question wrote for various Bay Area newspapers as well as writing text manuals. I have edited her poetry -- a very subjective and delicate affair -- and am currently working on her lengthy fantasy novel. Will contact you later with details; it's a fascinating tale, given the element of translation into standard English!

  Best.

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  first T-day dinner this year

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
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  i live in a seniors-only apartment complex.

  management has a tendency to patronize us, which is interesting and rather entertaining.

  today we had our annual t-day dinner for the seniors, catered by a local church.

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  compound complex

  Love your story, Hortensia!

  Having T-dinner with a local author. She says her children can't wait to meet her editor?!?!?

  We'll see. I'll save you a wing . . .

  CoCo
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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  Thanks, new hope, for noticing and commenting!

  No point, as you say, getting hung up on it.

  When we talk, no one seems to notice our misspelled words . . .

  The authors I work for are all wonderful, valuable people. They simply have different ways of "putting" it.

  Best.

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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  Writers -- like all other human beings with feelings -- sometimes act as though their words are inviolable. As a result, the editor (who has tentatively won the trust of the author) must tread lightly but with determined purpose to get the text "right."

  If it's only punctuation and spelling, the task of proofreading is relatively simple; however, general rewrites that involve restructuring are more complex in that the editor must retain the author's voice but render the work into standard English. Of course, the writing of narrative differs from that of dialogue. I'm editing an entire work now that must be proofread before the second printing, as much was missed in the initial reading (yet, it went to print).

  The point being, the writer may have wonderful thoughts to share, but definitely needs outside, professional assistance. If he knows this and acquiesces, it's so much easier to put his promising work into language both understandable and enjoyable to read . . .

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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  In the business of editing the writing of other writers, I recently learned that my own entry "Frank R. Stockton's The Lady, or the Tiger" is correctly written "Frank R. Stockton's Lady, or the Tiger" (alternate rendering: "The Lady, or the Tiger, by Frank R. Stockton").

  The article the is deleted from the title if said title is preceded by the author's name (in the possessive case).

  Learn something new every day . . .

  CC
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  Isle of the Dead

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxpiqeyftq.

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  Rewrite of A Sea of Broken Dreams:

  I am adrift, without rudder,
  in a sea of broken dreams.

  My mind descends into a tangle
  of tentacled seaweed that pulls

  My hapless frame further downward,
  downward into a black and sinister
  
  Realm that has held ever fast its jailed
  without pity, no hope their escaping.

  I do love the land and all her beauties,
  but have always feared the sea, having

  Never gladly nor willingly ventured forth in
  search of adventure at peril to life and limb.

  Adrift in my thoughts, I roam the dread shores of
  what this coward fears the most: those uncharted

  Waters of soul and spirit; they surely will swallow down
  whole this flailing, gasping wretch until every sign of life,

  Hope, vitality is extinguished in death's throes . . . victorious. . . .
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  Is the WTS backing away from "Bible Tall Tales" ?

  by Simon in

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  when i was a kid, it seemed like not a meeting went by when you didn't hear about jonah or sampson and other tall tales from the bible.. now though, they seem to have been sidelined.

  i guess the rest of the world caught on to the fact that these stories couldn't possibly be true and were so far fetched (yeah, even by bible standards) that they are just treated as 'stories' like aesop's fables.

  saying that you believe in them as genuine accounts just makes you look like a crazy zealot.. but the wts is different.

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  I have become a Nazirite: a razor has not come upon my head; I never run into dead bodies; I'm a teetotaler.

  My life remains a drag . . .

  CoCo Hirsute
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  This Tired, Lonely Man

  by compound complex in

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  this tired, lonely man has been snared, but i protest little .

  she holds me tenderly in her tightening but welcome thrall.

  i cave willingly -- oh, so willingly -- to her amatory attentions.

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  Me too!

  Welcome, friend!

  CoCo
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  This Tired, Lonely Man

  by compound complex in

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  this tired, lonely man has been snared, but i protest little .

  she holds me tenderly in her tightening but welcome thrall.

  i cave willingly -- oh, so willingly -- to her amatory attentions.

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  compound complex

  You're a master of limericks, Nancy!

  THANKS!

  CC