mistakes
November 12, 2009
- November 12 EIGHT MISTAKES CLOSER I am eight mistakes closer to perfection. As long as I fall forward, progress is being made. I fail meticulously toward my goal, more cannot be asked. Loss, pain, frustration are strong teachers and great motivators. I suck each splinter for knowledge, extracting juice from every fragment for information. In spite of sprains and strains, I have ...
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November 5, 2009
- Please, I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be a fiction editor. I have worked editing nonfiction, but NF is a completely different animal. I have a scientist’s eye. I zoom in on patterns, and look for things falling outside the norm. I created this list because these are issues I address everyday in comment boxes on writing websites. I hope it helps. The examples are pulled from my ...
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September 23, 2009
- For every seventeen-year-old male in the UK, the number one purchase is a car. It’s a rite of passage--the first step towards adulthood and independence.I was in engineering college when I turned seventeen. My birthday occurred late in the school year and several of my friends had already turned seventeen, passed their test and gotten cars--albeit jalopies for a couple of hundred quid.John ...
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September 16, 2009
- When I was a senior in high school I dropped out before graduation. It took a while before I told my family and friends that I had made a mistake. I didn’t want to face the truth—that my actions had significantly altered my future. For months I drifted from one low wage job to another, not knowing what the future held, uncertain as to how I was going to get my life back on track. If we ...
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September 3, 2009
- I can remember trying to be a 'good' big sister and cousin when I was 13. That makes it sound like it wasn't a frequent occurance (which is essentially true when the children closest in age to you are 6 years younger), but I did have my moments.One such time that comes to mind was when my younger brother and our two cousins caught some butterflies they wanted to keep. I was going to do something ...
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May 26, 2009
- I have plagiarized. Once.And it was inadvertent.That can happen. At the time, I thought I had changed my own prose enough so that it didn't read like the sources it came from but I hadn't and also, I had no original sources -- only the ones I offered in my bibliography. It was many years ago. I was desperate for money and very young (this is not a defense, but a description). Assigned by a ...
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July 22, 2008
- As a child I was punished for making mistakes. Because of my sensitive nature I developed a deep seated fear of making mistakes and developed procrastination to an art form. As my Step-Dad says, "show me a man who doesn't make mistakes and I'll show you a man who does nothing at all." I was one of those guys who did little to insure that no mistakes were made.As a young adult I ...
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May 18, 2008
- I adopted Emma (Emma Ewe Found Me, TSW, CGC, RL1, aka Emma Princess Warrier) 2 years ago from Glenhighland Farm (www.glenhighlandfarm.com). Because I hadn't adopted a dog recently, I forgot that just because she now lives with me, doesn't automatically put her in the same "smarts" category as my two boys. Rather than taking things (not all things, just some things) slowly, I was ...
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