A is for ACCURACY
I have a love hate relationship with gardening. In my family the joke is... don't give it to Vanessa because she'll kill it. Really... I do try to keep plants alive. Growing anything takes accuracy. Getting things right to make things grow. We'll see how the garden shapes up as we travel from A to Z.
I think my outward failures have been a reflection of inward darkness. We've all been down dark roads. Shaking the dust from my shoes and moving on. Don't you just love a fresh start?
The same goes for my writing. I have a love hate relationship with editing. Commas seem to be my nemesis. Too many or not enough. Overused or sadly forgotten. I write... and it consumes me in such a way that I forget things like.... punctuation. I lack accuracy.
Accuracy is a new goal. Learning to look at a situation, evaluate, determine what needs to be done accurately to improve, and move on.
Learning to shoot a bow with my son. Yeah.... I'll get back to you on that accuracy in a later post.
Happy A to Z everyone! Let the fun begin!
I remember getting one of my stories edited and it came back with a gazillion more commas. I posted a sample to a writing group and asked if she was being a comma Nazi. Everyone told me, NOPE! LOL - I tend to write conversationally, using commas where I want a pause. Oops!
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A to Z Flash Fiction Stories|A to Z of Goldendoodles
I pause... and it feels right to place a comma! hahaha!
DeletePunctuation is a tough one. I have trouble with semi-colons. I tend to leave commas out if they are not (in my opinion) necessary for the flow. Good one for the A to Z!
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