November 06, 2003writers and such
Writers Group tonight - so hubby and I met at Subway for a "quiet" dinner. Ha! Family came in with 7 kids, mom and grandma. Boys were normal (aka rowdy and noisy). Nah, it didn't bother us really. If we had wanted a quiet dinner it would not have been at Subway - we were looking for quick, without it being fast food, you see. I went off to my meeting, hubby went home for a few minutes and then to his meeting of ABATE (Alaska Bikers Advocating Training and Education), where they were planning their Thanksgiving basket food-raiser. We had a smallish group at WG, only 9 tonight, but that meant that everyone who wanted to, was able to read. We only meet twice a month and I am honored to sit among some very good writers there. Came home to the treadmill and then ER and now here. Have any of you been following some of the NANOWRIMO writers? Oh, my, now that is dedication. I was reading some of the comments from the Alaskans involved (on the forum) and nearly ALL of the AK participants are high schoolers! Daughter tells me that some are home schooled and their parents are using NANO as their English studies for November. I would just wonder when they would have time to do the rest of their homework. We touched on schools and teaching tonight at WG. One of the men had a bumper sticker on his satchel - about one of his kids being on the honor roll. He said that all of them had been, but that they still were normal kids - ie the kind who get into scrapes. This all brought up a discussion on when my youngest was in junior high school (they call it a middle school now and include 6th graders in the building). The bumper sticker sent home for honor roll students read MY KID IS A HONOR ROLL STUDENT. Hmmm, whatever is wrong with that statement. Everyone out there who attended catholic schools raise your hand nicely to be called upon, please. Suzie? Yes, you are correct. The proper sentence should read MY KID IS AN HONOR ROLL STUDENT. One of the ladies (a retired teacher) said that according to the English something or other that the first sentence is also correct. But, oh my, oh my . . . I would not be able to use it that way - the nuns must be rolling in their graves over it, you know? Then, of course, we went on to other pet mistakes . . . the use of that and the non-use of who for humans, and vice versa for inanimate objects. Oh, dear . . . the local newspaper strikes again. The woman that said such and so . . . ARGH! Of course, the woman is a human being and the sentence should read: The woman who said such and so. Little stuff, but peevish stuff. back to the keyboard. I know that I must frustrate some because I don't always capitalize, and unless it is a formal letter (for work, for instance) then I generally do not capitalize my first name. Sorry, I must go now . . . I sense a nun coming up behind me with a metal edged ruler and my knuckles don't want that . . . see you. Posted by Purplemoose at November 6, 2003 10:46 PMComments
What's really frightening is that there are a significant number of people who have already finished. It is only day 7. And they have their 50k. In the list of wordcount highest to lowest I'm on page oh, 7? *L* If I were the type to suffer word count envy (i am!) i'd be depressed (i'm not! *L*) This is fun! *grin* broke 17k last night. aiming for 20k tonight. 20k in a week. not a bad thing I'm thinking. Not a bad thing at all. Posted by: Lessa at November 7, 2003 07:16 AMnope - and once you get it cleaned up (typos, etc.) it may even be marketable. Then I'll have a famous daughter - one who can keep me in my old age. heh you'll do the money stuff - and your sis will do the healing. ahhhhh two daughters to keep me young and feisty and kicking and . . . . I forgot much of the grammar I once knew. That, which and who trip me up all the time. I have a thing for spelling. When I was single, spelling was actually an important point in weeding out potential dates. I tease Tom because he can spell AND he's tall. :) He has many wonderful attributes but those were the clinchers. Ha, ha, ha! Posted by: ali at November 7, 2003 09:39 AMoooooh, give me a man what am a speller any day! LOL. The worst part about being good at spelling and passing good at grammar is when I want to write something in dialect or such. I have to let go of the nuns and their rulers and give myself over to character. Sometimes it works and sometimes the nuns are just too powerful. ;-)) Hi, tall, spelling, Tom! (blessed Ali) "who" and "whom" always had me confused with no cure. Otherwise, I think I did pretty good with my grammar and spelling. Posted by: Linda at November 7, 2003 01:41 PMLinda - sometimes it is just an "ear" thing - you begin to hear what sounds right. Or, it may simply be that the nuns pounded it so hard that it comes a bit easier - who and whom are toughies - and I sometimes cheat to find another way to say whatever it is I am trying to say. I dont even try. My dislexia and the fact hat I never really tried to be GOOD at it.. wel that takes over and I loose int he end. LOL..... Thank goodness I have a mommieand a sister that are good at it.t hat way when the spell chheck is down I can ask them for help.. And I do ALOT. Love ya Posted by: ladybug at November 7, 2003 09:11 PM |
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