Writers are suppose to be good at writing stuff, right? Except there are so many elements that go into writing, some depending on what you are writing. I don’t know how you could master all of them. Every time I think I understand one part of plot writing I find an article that takes me to another level of recognizing what I don’t know. But at least I can compete there.
True story, I got into computers because they had spell-check. That and my handwriting is not even legible to me. Computers were a gift from the technology gods telling me that I was born to be a software engineer and a writer. Another true fact, I passed college English because I amused my teacher by writing subroutines for grammar rules. If you can’t be brilliant be witty.
Part of the problem is I am relatively bright otherwise, but my low point intellectually is spelling. Compounding the problem is I have a fantastic vocabulary. So I regularly try and use words I know, but I can’t spell. I frustrate spell check on a regular basis. My spelling is so bad it even confuses Google.
Of course English is made up of so many different rules and has evolved from a bunch of different languages. So it is not like it is completely my fault. Homonyms, homophones, and homographs don’t help at all.
Add that to the fact that I spell how words sound and I come from Massachusetts where we have a distinct problem with rearranging the “r”s in our speech and I give up!
How about you? Do you have any true writing confessions?
Have a great day!
Paula
I drive a manual stick transmission and have for a long time. For those who haven’t, the clutch is the pedal you use to switch the gear. You press in on the clutch and move the stick to the desired gear, then release the clutch while pushing the gas. It takes a little bit of coordination, but it is great fun. There are also a couple of cool tricks you can do in a stick transmission that you can’t really pull off in an automatic car.
Like most of you, we don’t have a lot of time so we have to prioritize what we spend that precious time on. At least when it comes to entertainment. And there are so many good choices, but we can’t watch them all. So there is what we call the “B list”. As in, if we had more time, the show would be something that we would like to watch, but right now there are so many more “A list” shows. It doesn’t mean that the “B list” shows aren’t good, they are. But with time being a limited resource, we often don’t get a chance to get them. There are always more new content and shows out there to compete, and before you know it, you are binge watching because it is now or never.
Take food graters. We have one that was pretty cool. It was a circle on top of a catch pan that you could rotate around for the grating type you needed. Not your mother’s metal square thing that left a mess. But after spending waaaay too much time trying to grate some lime zest my daughter had the brilliant idea that we really needed a new one. Not technically the language she used but you get the point. Sure enough, there is this 
A few of you may have noticed that there were no editor’s posts on Thursday and Friday of last week.
If you own dogs, you know that old joke about dogs acting like you have been gone for 10 years when you just stepped outside to get the mail. We have two dogs, Paxil, a border collie/ Australian shepherd mix, and Lunesta (Lulu) who is a Papillion. Every morning the routine is usually the same. My husband, who is a saint and can deal with mornings better, gets up lets the dogs out to do their business, does his business and gets the coffee going. This is my husband’s time to relax and start the day slowly. Later when I have to get up, the dogs want to go out again. No matter if I get up in one minute or one hour later.
When it rains it pours and that can’t be poignant enough for right now. Poor Barbuda is pretty much wiped out, all the islands in the Carribean, Florida, Mexico, and of course Texas is still bailing out. Our good thoughts and wishes go out for all of you now and I promise to rearrange my budget so we can give cash as needed.
I have Addison’s second type, like J. F. Kennedy but a little different. His was the first type. Basically due to doctors error a long time ago my adrenal glands are totally fried. It took an incredibly long time to get diagnosed but here I am trying to work my program. So one of the issues is I have a shit ton of inflammation which means, happy fun time, I get to go on the inflammation diet. So today I spent the day making my own homemade flax seed cereal for breakfast and preparing kale. I f’ing hate kale. The only thing that I hate worse than kale is kale with shitake mushrooms. If you just said “Oh that sounds yummy” then (1) I probably hate you too, and (2) please come eat mine for me.
Have you ever read about something, and then was so excited to try it someday? For me, it was Turkish Delight and then mead. So many of my childhood stories extolled the delight of Turkish candy. Even in The Chronicles of Narnia series, it was a treat among treats, that the White Witch tempted Edmund with. So it has to be good, right? Have you tasted it? First of all, it smells like roses and I love roses. But it is very sticky and too sweet (and I like sweets!) and it tastes like your grandmothers rose soap. My son will eat it but then again, he likes Haggis so there is no accounting for taste.
Do you lucid dream or have a dream journal? I have always had an interesting dream life and have solved problems in my sleep, but I don’t think I can actually have a lucid dream. But if you can remember your dreams, make sure you take note, for they are surely telling you something you need to hear. If you wake up and can remember what you were dreaming about it is helpful to write it down immediately. Google has plenty of tips on how to remember your dreams better.
