So…it’s been a little quiet around here. Funny thing, but it happened to coincide rather neatly with me and TadMack getting together in person to get caught up, reunite with some other grad school friends, and eat pie.<\/p>\n
Anyway, there are many reasons why TadMack is awesome, but I wanted to point out that today she managed to A) fly back to Scotland from California; B) make it back in time to attend our online writing group chat; and C) give helpful, encouraging, and cogent commentary on my much-labored-over first chapter, which has now been sent off to Firebrand Literary<\/a>‘s query holiday. My revision continues apace, with many handwritten notes and much stress about whether the rest of the novel will live up to the first chapter, now that I’ve polished it to a blinding shine.<\/p>\n Things that have NOT been polished to a blinding shine: two examples of Stunningly Egregious Misuse that I have to pass along to you so that you may share in my aggravation. Example the first was seen on a license plate frame (where Egregious Misuse tends to abound): <\/p>\n In case of RAPTURE To me it sounds like some sort of strange insult: Hey! You! Cars yours! Accompanied, of course, by an appropriately rude gesture, or perhaps the painful flinging of a Matchbox car.<\/p>\n Example the second was spotted as I drove past some kind of industrial supply warehouse alongside the freeway. They had a rather large sign posted advertising<\/p>\n Get Nanomasks here Several things are disturbing here. Firstly, there’s the nanomask thing–I don’t know what a nanomask is, but it sounds like some scary post-apocalyptic accessory. Secondly, there’s that damn apostrophe. So, when I first glanced at this sign, I didn’t see the apostrophe, and it wasn’t quite as bad. I mean, they could have written “KILLS VIRUS” because they couldn’t fit in the final “ES” on the sign, or maybe they were second-language English speakers. But really. This is one of those “greengrocer’s apostrophes” that Lynne Truss<\/a> rants on about. It’s enough to make me want to be a good grammar vandal, except it would require a rather large ladder and some trespassing.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So…it’s been a little quiet around here. Funny thing, but it happened to coincide rather neatly with me and TadMack getting together in person…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,106,10,52],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-most-egregious-misuse","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
CARS YOURS!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
KILLS VIRUS’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n