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To: shibumi; Hemingway's Ghost
And apparently a master of the sentence fragment, mixed metaphor and redundancy.

Yes, my first thought when reading that was how my first creative writing teacher in high school would have red-marked the heck out of that. I don't even like to think what the oft-published profs I had in college would have done.

And I haven't been "a professional writer all my professional life." ;-)

278 posted on 11/09/2011 4:30:14 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Allegra

At ND, I had the privilege of having the finest English Professor anyone could ever hope for, Dr. Ed Cronin, PhD Chairman Emeritus, GPLS, who has since passed on to a greater reward.

The first time he returned our compositions, which he expected to be rewritten with appropriate correction, he firmly stated:

“Do not mistake those red marks on your papers for ink. They are the Irish Blood I sweat over every word you write.”

Most posters on this forum would not have made it through the first week.


282 posted on 11/09/2011 4:41:07 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Allegra
Could be worse. “I have been a professional for half my professional life”
317 posted on 11/10/2011 8:16:27 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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