I got an email recently about my Book Review: The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern post with the Subject: Typos. See the email below:
Name: Sally O
Email: removedSubject: Typos
Message Body:
Hello; I found your review of The Book of Tomorrow via Google. It is an entertaining review but has a great many typos. If this doesn’t bother you then that’s fine. If it does, might I suggest a quick proofing and edit? Things to fix =about to loose everything
LOSEcouldn’t bare facing
BEARRose, in to the gatehouse.
ROSALINE, INTOwhich burn’t
BURNEDangry and board.
BOREDhaving latte’s
LATTESolder man, who she fancies.
WHOMbegin’s to realise
BEGINSSally O
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I’d like to thank Sally O for taking the time to email me. I know that Sally O didn’t require a reply; but I wanted to use her email as an opportunity to write about the grammatical and occasion spelling errors you may spot on my blog.
All of the “typos” or grammatical errors Sally O points out in her email about my Book Review: The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern post are most probably right. When I wrote the post that’s where my writing was at. Once I’ve hit the Publish button I don’t go back and edit it, but I do consider the errors and try to learn from them so that my writing improves. This is how my blog helps me to learn to write better and it also shows me how my writings developed over the years.
Interestingly I now spend more time editing a blog post than I do writing one. I’ll write a first draft, then read it carefully looking for grammatical errors. Usually in sentences I’ll find words that I don’t need or words that are in the wrong order. Occasionally I’ll have written a sentence that doesn’t make sense. It’s the editing that takes the time, but it’s the editing that brings out the quality to my writing.
So although it’s tempting to edit posts removing the errors I spot after they’ve been published; especially on posts that bring a considerable number of visitors to my blog like Book Review: The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern (according to the WordPress Jetpack Stats Plugin) because the process helps develop and improve the quality of my writing and editing I’ll continue to leave the grammatical and occasional spelling errors as they are.
Take Care,
Antony
Sunday 16 December 2012
When difficult situations arise in my life I immediately reach for the Tarot deck in the hopes of gaining insight into how things will pan out. Recently I’ve been stressed about a Court Case. About a month before the Hearing, I shuffled my Tarot Deck thinking about the Court Case and here’s the card that came out:
According to the book with the Tarot deck this is what it means:
I won’t go into the details of the Court Case but as always the Tarot deck told the truth. Justice was on myside and it was a successful outcome for all parties involved.
So if you want to know the truth about your future, get a Tarot deck and learn to use it. Good or bad the Tarot deck always tells the truth.
Write soon,
Antony
Thursday 13 December 2012
Headline Publishing emailed and asked me if I’d like to read and review Fuse by Julianna Baggott the latest book in the Pure Trilogy. Pure the first book in the trilogy was a brilliant read with some really orignal ideas. You can read my full review of Pure here: Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott.
In fact I’d enjoyed reading Pure so much that I’d already added Fuse to My Book Schedule. So with Headline kindly offering to send me a free sample copy before the official release date, how could I say no?
After Headline emailed stating they would be sending it out shortly I began to buzz with excitement. Until the day a parcel arrived with #Fusebook on the envelope. At that point my excitement exploded and I instantly put down whatever I’d been reading to start reading Fuse. Here’s a photo of what arrived:
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A HUGE thank you must go to Headline for sending it out. I’m reading it at the moment and it’s a really addictive read that’s exceeding my high expectations. A review will be coming in the New Year.
In the meantime you can buy Pure the first book in the trilogy which will get you ready for Fuse when it is released in February 2013.
Write soon,
Antony
Monday 10 December 2012
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