One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones.
~~Stephen King
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I really fancy this commendation. I surmise that I am now more ingenious than I was just a diminutive moment ago
Well, I just have to find irony in this post...My news editor just told me I am SUPPOSED to write to a 6th/7th grade education (our readers), instead of readers who can understand complex paragraphs. Sentences need to be 6/7 words long, too. This is frustrating since I certainly don't talk like I have only a 6th/7th grade education, myself. Pray for me in this challenge...Lord knows I can use all His help in achieving whatever my editor is requesting of me.
Tricia Goyer is the author of thirty books including Songbird Under a German Moon, The Swiss Courier, and the mommy memoir, Blue Like Play Dough. She won Historical Novel of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from ACFW, and was honored with the Writer of the Year award from Mt. Hermon Writer's Conference in 2003. Tricia's book Life Interrupted was a finalist for the Gold Medallion in 2005. In addition to her novels, Tricia writes non-fiction books and magazine articles for publications like MomSense and Thriving Family. Tricia is a regular speaker at conventions and conferences, and has been a workshop presenter at the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International Conventions. She and her family make their home in Little Rock, Arkansas where they are part of the ministry of FamilyLife.
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I really fancy this commendation. I surmise that I am now more ingenious than I was just a diminutive moment ago
Hahahaha!! ^
Well, I just have to find irony in this post...My news editor just told me I am SUPPOSED to write to a 6th/7th grade education (our readers), instead of readers who can understand complex paragraphs. Sentences need to be 6/7 words long, too. This is frustrating since I certainly don't talk like I have only a 6th/7th grade education, myself. Pray for me in this challenge...Lord knows I can use all His help in achieving whatever my editor is requesting of me.
Jennie
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