An Editorial Apology to Sharon Darrow
We the editors of STACCATO, the blog of Trina Sotira, would like to apologize to Sharon Darrow, writing teacher extraordinaire, whom went unmentioned in the previous blog about Prairie Writer's Day. Our writing team, which consisted of one person who had been sitting in a chair for eight hours listening and learning, dreaming and planning, devised a blog posthaste and suffered from CONFERENCE HEAD. As a result, said writer who will go unnamed out of mucho embarrassment, reminds us that she left out an extremely important speaker, one who taught at Columbia College Chicago, the writer's favorite undergraduate school of all time (she's an alum). Currently, Sharon preaches copacetic skills at Vermont College of Fine Arts, home of children's writing greats.
With that said, let's all take a moment to THANK SHARON DARROW for teaching our writer how to improve her work. Specifically, the reminder to remove all or most "-ly" words. From henceforth, we shall recognize Ms. Darrow by referring to the process of removing all "-ly" adverbs in one's manuscript, in addition to the deletion of phrases such as "I heard," "I thought," "I saw," and "I feel," as a "DARROWISTIC REVISION".
Again, we apologize. Geesh, those writers would be lost without editors!