For my tenth birthday, right before Halloween, my brother and I transformed our ordinary house into a majestic creepy palace of horrors. It was originally my idea. I loved haunted houses, and had been deeply disappointed with the one at my school Halloween carnival. Though the “haunted house” there had cost me money, it had […]
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The early \”grade\” on my e-book is that it is interesting – but the language is “tentative.” I am currently having the manuscript for my e-book on writing edited. One of the criticisms the editor had made is that my tone, at times, sounded uncertain. In places, for example, where I could have said, “Keep
Many complain that in writing, there are too many rules. But to me, speaking has always seemed heavier with rules, many of them hidden and unknowable; at least in writing, I knew what they were. I could look at any grammar book and find them. The rules of speaking were always changing, according to circumstance.
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\”Gushy?” I say, and stare at him. “You thought I was being gushy?\” \”Only at first. But then I changed my mind.\”\”So what changed it?\”\”You read me the rest of the note.\”I take a deep breath. \”So let me get this straight. For the first two sentences, you thought I was gushy. Then you changed
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There was a time that I had decided that all television was dumb and that only books were worth my time. I hated the vacuous sit-coms and the laugh tracks that told viewers how to react. I was fifteen then. Perhaps at that time, in the mid eighties, the quality of many shows were sub-par.
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