I'm loving you, mower, mower, mower.
I'm loving you, mower, mower, mower.
As someone who cuts a lot of grass, I'm curious as to which model he was singing about. Maybe Weird Al knows.
[I had a fun parody of Kristian Stanfill's Always here, which is where the blog title originated. It was about Bilbo's love of food and his scoring free food off Gandalf. However, someone was offended. If one person is offended, there's bound to be more. I'd like to get to the point where I make enough writing that I can do it full time. I won't get there by alienating potential readers.
Romans 14:21 What is good is not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
If parodies of Christian songs cause some people to stumble, it's better to remove it.]
Book Stuff
An intrepid test reader for the mystery/romance pointed out a sentence that was "borderline run-on". That happens when I try to cram multiple sentences that either don't flow together very well or would turn into a boring, lengthy paragraph into something that's shorter and hopefully sounds better.
The intrepid test reader(You know who you are!) pointed out the sentence at the end of a pile of corrections. I proofread. How could there still be errors? Shouldn't the book be Error Free(TM) by now? By the time I got to the borderline run-on sentence, it was comical the number and types of fixes I had to do. The test reader's wording made me laugh. For fixes that are more than simple things like a missing comma, I email back what I've done to correct them. For that sentence I sent back what might be my new catchphrase: Borderline run-on. That's how I roll.
Too geeky? It made me laugh, although I never heard back on it.I've been working on the Messengers sequel. I ran into a problem. Something was prophesied in Call to Selah that I tried to put in too early. I had two choices: alter CtS or alter the sequel. After talking to a couple of readers and praying, the solution was to alter the sequel. I just realized I forgot to tell you that the rough draft is finished. I finished it the other day. As I've been going through the finished rough draft, I've been fixing that prophesy problem. It's going to add an exra scene that still needs to be written. There's another unrelated scene that I probably need to add in. We'll see. I've also been removing some background characters that were redundant. Another character was already doing their job. I actually caught that during the writing. I think I'm past the point where I stopped referring to them. So, it's moving along. I'll let you know how it's going when there's more to tell.
