Typecast...

Interesting thing, I’ve been reading my way through the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. While I’m enjoying it, the thing the gets me is the amount of typos in these paperbacks. You know, people always pick at the typos in ebooks citing that the writing and editing is rushed and therefore substandard because anyone can bung together and sell an ebook. Yeah, that can be true. But I was surprised that so called reputable, print book publishers are putting haphazard printed books out with a hell of a lot of typos.

So, to the traditionalists who will only read hard copy, are you getting a higher quality product than an ebook? I think not. 

Comma splice - que?

Well, it appears I have been comma splicing all over the place for years and I’ve been getting away with it. I always thought a splice was either one of two things. See picture – that’s a mango passion Splice sold in Australia. Yum. The other splice I know of is learning how to splice film, years ago at uni. But comma splice? What the?

A comma splice in this case is to do with editing. A learned colleague reported thusly…I like the word thusly. We don’t use it enough…anyway–

“…it’s when two clauses are joined together only with a comma, not linked properly with a conjunction… purists don’t like it…”

Okay – they only thing I got out of that was “purists don’t like it…” So, thusly as I’m not pure I feel the whole comma splice thing thusly applies only to the pure. Problem solved. See how easy editing can be when you use logic like that.

Thusly yours…

Amarinda Jones
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