Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Mar 18 2009
When words come incorrectly and sentences leave capriciously
I'm getting frustrated that spell checking doesn't do well with grammar checking. I typed "I've know" in my last blog entry and it went right on through for public ridicule. We live in a time when people will accept the grammar of one adjective or one adverb as a full sentence, but we don't live in a time when present verb tense can correctly replace past verb tense (or any other tense). Editing is something I do a lot, but I seem to have proved to myself that frequency doesn't mean perfection. I'll have to be content with the tone of the entry and the thought behind it, rather than the proficiency of its sentence structure. In my case, creativity stirs the pot of life's alphabet soup with a freeness that often wins out over any inner food critic.
On another note, Eric and I tried to exchange a comment or two on Twitter recently, but poor Twitter had some sort of hiccup and lost at lost one or two of the entries. It's frustrating. It's like trying to write an accurate grocery list while someone keeps rearranging the cans in the pantry.
posted at: 08:21 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I'm getting frustrated that spell checking doesn't do well with grammar checking. I typed "I've know" in my last blog entry and it went right on through for public ridicule. We live in a time when people will accept the grammar of one adjective or one adverb as a full sentence, but we don't live in a time when present verb tense can correctly replace past verb tense (or any other tense). Editing is something I do a lot, but I seem to have proved to myself that frequency doesn't mean perfection. I'll have to be content with the tone of the entry and the thought behind it, rather than the proficiency of its sentence structure. In my case, creativity stirs the pot of life's alphabet soup with a freeness that often wins out over any inner food critic.
On another note, Eric and I tried to exchange a comment or two on Twitter recently, but poor Twitter had some sort of hiccup and lost at lost one or two of the entries. It's frustrating. It's like trying to write an accurate grocery list while someone keeps rearranging the cans in the pantry.
posted at: 08:21 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
