Of cabbages and kings...
An amazing post by risti about the awkwardness of being single and hanging out with married friends.
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Still wavering on whether or not to try NaNoWriMo for the first time. Any of you taking the plunge?
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I joined a small writer's critique group on Yahoo!Groups and pulled up the first chapter of a novel that was already posted in the files to give my feedback. I'm probably the youngest in the group and several already have been published so I was hesitant, sure that I was going to be blasted away by the quality of the writing and not find a single helpful thing to correct. Who knew I was going to be so wrong?
Misspellings? Everywhere.
Stilted dialogue? Currently on a rampage.
Sentences starting with "The" ten million times in each paragraph? Oh someone save me, YES.
I cringed, actually cringed when reading some of this person's attempts at using characters to describe something they'd never seen before. It was like a bad parody, except the author was sincerely trying to be serious. (I.e. "Look at that house that is beautiful and gorgeous and has a dome with a pier that goes all the way out to the ocean that has such pretty blue water and doesn't seem to be from earth at all." Not kidding).
*headdesk*
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Still wavering on whether or not to try NaNoWriMo for the first time. Any of you taking the plunge?
~~
I joined a small writer's critique group on Yahoo!Groups and pulled up the first chapter of a novel that was already posted in the files to give my feedback. I'm probably the youngest in the group and several already have been published so I was hesitant, sure that I was going to be blasted away by the quality of the writing and not find a single helpful thing to correct. Who knew I was going to be so wrong?
Misspellings? Everywhere.
Stilted dialogue? Currently on a rampage.
Sentences starting with "The" ten million times in each paragraph? Oh someone save me, YES.
I cringed, actually cringed when reading some of this person's attempts at using characters to describe something they'd never seen before. It was like a bad parody, except the author was sincerely trying to be serious. (I.e. "Look at that house that is beautiful and gorgeous and has a dome with a pier that goes all the way out to the ocean that has such pretty blue water and doesn't seem to be from earth at all." Not kidding).
*headdesk*