I've been making Microsoft Word earn its yearly fee the last couple of days. At best I am a terrible speller, at worst I am the worst! I know grammar rules pretty well, but there are so many of them that are choices and not hard fast rule.
Oxford comma, I'm looking at you!
A major issue I have is that I write like I talk and I've never purposely used fewer words. The grammar checker keeps wanting me to "rethink" using words like actually, because it thinks less is more. Frak you! More is always more...that's how math works! Granted, upon going through the first few chapters this evening, I agreed that it made things more readable, but it doesn't know the language style of the characters, so in dialogue I have to be grammatically incorrect when writing for Powerful Dude. I also had to add frak, prolly, titties and buggers to my user dictionary. Hey, I'm not getting graded on this or nothing. I will have this book professionally edited, however. I'm also going to resubmit the first book and have it touched up because I've noticed a lot while I was reading it in preparation for writing the sequel.
As you may have guessed, I'm just avoiding writing and so I'm doing this. I have to keep up with the blog, even if nobody ever reads it. I don't know why I do, but the internet tells me I do. I'm going to hit publish on this waste of words and go back to writing for real. Thank you to anyone that is following this. Feel free to "like" the post on Facebook or comment on the blog post or anything to let me know that someone sees this. I think I've mentioned before that I'm an attention whore, so please support my whorishness!
Pauldo
