"but that" Two words: "but" and "that".

Not:

Butthat

Big Misunderstanding -- check.

It was about an hour later, when suddenly, I heard a scrabbling near the entrance to the alley.

gyaaaaaarf!

The edited version:

They'd been hunkering behind their meager cover for an hour when Shannon heard something scrabbling near the entrance to the alley.Which still needs work, I'm the first one to admit, but at least it has some more ( Read more... )

Today in cooking class, I made apple crisp. One of the ingredients was nutmeg, and when I went to the spice cabinet, there were whole nutmegs, and a grater ( Read more... )

... remember when I made that snarky remark about Dan Brown, and the use of elipses and an em-dash in the same sentence?

Well, I found an incidence of that in The Coming Storm when I was doing the final polish of chapter 3. *blush*

On the bright side? It's not there anymore. :D

The key word being trying. As in, this book is trying my patience.

I'm finding it incredibly crudely written -- or perhaps overwritten would be a better descriptor. And then, there is the sentence that pretty much broke my brain.

His tone was fitting -- a guttural rumble...like a gathering storm.It made me want to reach through the book and ( Read more... )