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- Fri Nov 08, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Steve, You certainly put your lawyer's hat on to answer THAT question. :lol: Let me see if I got it. You have to do "SOMETHING," and if you're not a lazy writer, that something means one should add quotes when writing a quote; except there are time when bloggers and self-published authors ...
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:36 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Steve, Jan,
Sorry to interject a non-alliterative question.
Does using a colon eliminate the need to put quote marks around a quoted statement?
Thanks,
Always learning Lillian - A little alliteration here.
Sorry to interject a non-alliterative question.
Does using a colon eliminate the need to put quote marks around a quoted statement?
Thanks,
Always learning Lillian - A little alliteration here.
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:06 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 49640
Re: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
Thanks, again, Steve.
Your assessessments are always invaluable and intellectually challenging. I may not always agree on everything, but they do make me think. For this one, I'll settle for having gotten it partly right.
Lillian
Your assessessments are always invaluable and intellectually challenging. I may not always agree on everything, but they do make me think. For this one, I'll settle for having gotten it partly right.
Lillian
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:46 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 49640
Re: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
Thanks, Steve for taking the time to analyze my story. Please tell me if my assessment of your comments (why it didn't "work" for you) is correct. If I understand your perspective correctly, the story does not relate to the wasting of one's inheritance as in the biblical account. I wrote t...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 49640
Re: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
Yes, Jan, it does make sense - especially the idea of an allusion being within the story. I also think I was confusing illusion with allusion.
Associating allude with allusion also helps.
Lillian
Associating allude with allusion also helps.
Lillian
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:48 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 49640
Re: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
P.S. Don't ask me why there's a question mark after bankrupt.
Lillian
Lillian
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:38 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 49640
Re: Be A Better Writer--ALLUSION
Jan, I can't seem to get my head around this one. A question about the difference between allusion and allegory keeps getting in the way. I was too late this week to get in my Challenge entry in for "Fish Out of Water", but your # 3 reference to a "character's action as prodigal"...
- Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:25 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Ellen,
Just surfing through. I'm not Jan, but I like your "overkill" cars on the freeway poem.
By the way, I couldn't find any alliteration in excess.
But Jan's the expert. I'm anxious to see what she says.
Lillian
Just surfing through. I'm not Jan, but I like your "overkill" cars on the freeway poem.
By the way, I couldn't find any alliteration in excess.
But Jan's the expert. I'm anxious to see what she says.
Lillian
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:28 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Oh, okay. The comma threw me. I was expecting more. (LOL)
Lillian
Lillian
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:55 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Jan wrote:Just giving this new lesson a little bump,
Lillian
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:01 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
- Replies: 32
- Views: 47488
Re: Be a Better Writer--ALLITERATION
Jan, Here's my link to a Challenge article that I wrote for the topic, "On The Telephone." I think titles of articles are suppose to have quotes. Culture Connection Including the title, I found five examples of alliteration. I think. ( An acceptable, simple sentence, yes?) 1. Culture Conne...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:18 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 63315
Re: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
I didn't mean to say the more was wrong, just that by taking it out it's easier to see there are two choices: appropriate or wrong, not a list of choices. Does that make sense? Shann, It sorta makes sense, in a "bare bones" simple sentence way. I guess I just embellished it with a few adj...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:08 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 63315
Re: Be a Better Writer--ASK AN EDITOR/WRITER/Etc.
I'm curious about the comma answer. I would have said that sentence didn't need a comma because it wasn't joining two independent clauses with a conjunction. If you take out the quotation marks and the word more and write it like this: I'm not sure if the following example is appropriate or wrong. ...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:11 am
- Forum: New to the FaithWriters Platinum (500)
- Topic: Joined a Few Days Ago, Just Saying Hello
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9606
- Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:07 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--SENTENCE STRUCTURES (THE END)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 31652
Re: Be a Better Writer--SENTENCE STRUCTURES (THE END)
No, your're making me REthink, in addition to learning more about what I love to do.
And I probably should have written "picture of a sparse cupboard.
Lillian
And I probably should have written "picture of a sparse cupboard.
Lillian