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[Erozetta]

Worried because you aren’t strong on grammar? No problem, just write in first person with a narrator who doesn’t use good grammar.

Don't give away my secret like that.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Worried because you aren’t strong on grammar? No problem, just write in first person with a narrator who doesn’t use good grammar.

What about a highly educated college student with great spoken grammar - if you have the professor toss back her assignmrnt with the words 'Learn how commas work' does that absolve you of any errors?

(Asking for a friend)

 

[MelissaBaby]

What about a highly educated college student with great spoken grammar - if you have the professor toss back her assignmrnt with the words 'Learn how commas work' does that absolve you of any errors?

(Asking for a friend)

If you've written a first person character with great spoken grammar, why would it be an issue?

 

[Robin_Starveling]

The Song of Songs is the most beautiful erotic lyric ever written.

 

[PennyThompson]

Worried because you aren’t strong on grammar? No problem, just write in first person with a narrator who doesn’t use good grammar.

I wrote a first-person story with a narrator who wrote like she was self-taught from her local small town library but spoke with a backwoods Appalachian vernacular, and it was both very freeing and a ton of fun to write

 

[Statius]

I wrote a first-person story with a narrator who wrote like she was self-taught from her local small town library but spoke with a backwoods Appalachian vernacular, and it was both very freeing and a ton of fun to write

If your referring to Dandelion Greene, that was a whole lot of fun to read as well. Great story, fun and funny.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Mime's are the sexiest of the clowns.

 

[iwatchus]

Mime's are the sexiest of the clowns.

A low bar to achieve

 

[SimonDoom]

Mime's are the sexiest of the clowns.

Mimes are to sexy what DDT is to eagle populations.

 

[TheLobster]

Mimes are to sexy what DDT is to eagle populations.

Oh, come on! Could you really resist the allure of this playful smile?

 

[Bramblethorn]

A mime is a terrible thing to taste.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Worried because you aren’t strong on grammar? No problem, just write in first person with a narrator who doesn’t use good grammar.

Or find an editor who likes your work. I've edited a few stories where the grammar wasn't great but the story was good.

It's a lot easier to fix punctuation than to fix boring.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Y'all clowning around about mimes reminded me of this.

 

[TheLobster]

It's a lot easier to fix punctuation than to fix boring.

Curiously, in writing — unlike in landscaping, construction, and dentistry — it seems that it's almost never possible to fix boring by adding more filling.

 

[Statius]

Here's one. Let the skewering begin.
The Iliad doesn't start IMR. It starts at the beginning, the beginning of the rage of Achilles. The Odyssey starts IMR.