I just got a haircut. I think I met Geronimo’s great granddaughter. I should have known better when I saw she had purple hair with red highlights and rings stapled into most of her face and appendages. I asked her to trim an inch off of everything. When it was all done I had been scalped down almost to bare skin. She had actually cut at least two-and-one-half inches off. She seemed very competent in her cutting skills, making it evenly done everywhere. I am convinced it was not her hair-cutting skills, it was that she had been to public school and graduated in America and basically had no clue how long an inch was. It’s usually the fundamentals that get you shot down in life. It’s the same way in writing. If you don’t learn the basics, you can write hundreds of pages and have it be a total failure. You can understand dialogue and character development and imagery and all that stuff, but if you can’t spell and don’t know how to write a complete sentence, you will fail. Pay attention to the basics. Know what a subject, object, noun, verb, and adjective are and know how to spell…otherwise it’s all going to be like pounding nails without a hammer.
I know grammar and spell check and all those fancy tools are out there in your software, but they’ll fool you if that’s all you rely on. Don’t get me wrong, no one is perfect and I use those tools to make sure I don’t miss things. Nevertheless, it’s not enough to rely on that as a way to write good sentence structure. Know the basics well…or find a ghost writer who does. Happy Writing!!
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Janet Rea
5/28/2017 09:30:59 pm
You described every time I go to get a haircut to perfection!
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