Oz ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My personal deadline is June 1st, the editor's deadline is July 1st.
Oh, you're clever to have them separate.
I just want the time for a couple of beta reads, so I can tighten things up.
Me! Me! MeMEME!
Um, I mean, there's also the benefit of having some time between the actual writing and the last reading and polishing, right? Some distance from the words as well as the emotions, to look at them a bit more clearly, even with your own eyes?
Okay, I got clarification. "childless" was just a poor word choice. She's gushing about the book and promising to be first in line to buy it. I feel much better now. Man. POOR WORD CHOICE.
POOR WORD CHOICE.
See? You're a writer. You recognise that. She isn't and doesn't and so there nanny nanny boo boo.
Okay, off. I think I've sent all the e-mails and printed all the stuff required.
"childless" was just a poor word choice
Well, you're the writer.
[Edit: and now I'm x-posting in-spirit with ita. Who's next?]
Introducing the new member of my extended family, my sister's new puppy, Kasey. At 10 weeks, she's already pretty big, she may turn out to be massive.
Wow, big dog! Is she a golden lab mix?
Nope, she's a purebred Golden Retriever. My sister's other dog's father is from the same breeder and is also very big. (And wide, but that's a whole other thing.)
What a cutie!
I remember when my brother's first Malamute was about that age--he was big, too (and had the cutest big paws to go with his size!!). I first saw the two he has now when they were about six-seven weeks old and still able to fit under the bottom shelf in the basement, where they loved to sleep. Big balls of fluff!
Of course, now, their "fluff" is shedding like mad and is coming off in clumps--Chase, especially, has the tendency to drop all of his undercoat at once. Dakota's comes off over the course of a month of so, so it isn't so messy to pet him.
Completely random punctuation question:
When using phrases like "I wonder..." etc., should the sentence end with a question mark?
Like, say, "I wonder what happened to my wombat?" There is a question there, but it is a question the writer is asking himself, not the reader. (eta: the writer is making a statement that he is wondering about something.) But then leaving the question mark off seems strange to me. OK, after thinking about it, they both seem strange to me. A quick Google seems to show both usages....
What is the rule? (I wonder.)
