That’s all.
I hate apostrophes.
I will never naturally be able to write them accurately as I write.
His, he’s, theirs’, hers, she’s, its, it’s (oh, do I HATE that pair!)
Hmm, did I just have a breakthrough? His, Hers, Its. He’s, She’s, It’s — no, no breakthrough. IT sucks. The apostrophe sucks.
I tumble down the stairs, my broken body piled at the bottom, a jumble of limbs, twisted and bent, my neck unnaturally backwards, my face looking back up at you with this pleading expression, “Why, why is the apostrophe so hard to ingrain into my brain?”
You look down the stairwell, disdain on your face and say to me, “You should try Cyrillic!”
So if I sent you my personal email, would like to share the first 10 pages of your book…sent in pdf format or word, so I can read your story? Just asking.
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Not a secret. Don’t set your expectations too high — in fact, cut them in half before you read anything.
This is a YA novel, and although it starts tame, it doesn’t stay that way.
https://sites.google.com/view/thegribbleseyefanclub
And you can find my IRL musings here:
https://goo.gl/PPxb6i
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Thanks!
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I had to look up that last word. I wish I hadn’t!!!!
Good luck with that?
BTW, have you figured out that (;) thingy?
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Funny you should mention that.
There is a post I did a year or so ago which analyzes punctuation and the literary novel. I found some tools to extract counts of things like sentences, phrases, exclamations, etc.
What I found was rather striking. That thing, the semicolon, is used WAY more often by literary authors than what my limited analysis shows popular fiction authors use.
If you’re going for lofty – go semi-pro.
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