[stylist] sample of work rewritten. 3rd attempt.

[Judith Bron]

Helene, You are right if you want to leave your story on the computer. 
Editors and publishers are not forgiving of bad grammer or bad spelling. 
Yes, you have to perfect your story, but before your manuscript leaves  your 
computer both the spelling and grammer have to be perfect.  I found this out 
the hard way.  Then I went to work.  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] sample of work rewritten. 3rd attempt.


Thanks for everyone's comments. I don't mind people commenting or
correcting my grammar but I would also like some feed back on what you
actually think of the work as well.

The grammar isn't intentional. Or for affect. It's just because
neither my spelling or my grammar is perfect. While I have a spell
check to help me with the spelling, the computer doesn't correct
grammatical errors quite so well.

One thought though. At the moment work is not on it's final draft and
may be altered if need be. It might be a good idea if general quality
was discussed first. When I've reached my final draft grammar can be
gone over again. Otherwise you might have to end up having to keep
correcting grammar.

While it's good to have good grammar in one's work it shouldn't be the
main thing. Originality and getting the readers attention is more
important. That's what I need to know right now. But thanks for
reading my work anyway.

Helene

On 27/10/2008, James Canaday M.A.  N6YR <n6yr at sunflower.com> wrote:
> not always.  sometimes redundancies serve to
> emphasize, or are necessary for flow in a particular passage.
> jc
>
> Jim Canaday M.A.
> Lawrence, KS
>
> At 01:00 PM 10/27/2008, you wrote:
>>Our language has lots of redundancies.   Good writers will spot and
>> eliminate
>>them.
>>Lori
>>In a message dated 10/26/08 11:29:14 PM, f.wurtzel at comcast.net writes:
>>
>>
>> > Hi Jim,
>> >
>> > I agree it is common and, in my opinion, redundant.  Many people also
>> > say
>> > "refer back" or "remand back" which are
>> clearly bad usage by virtue of their
>> > redundancy.  I feel "exact same" falls into the same category.
>> >
>> > Warm Regards,
>> >
>> > Fred
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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