If this doesn’t destroy your mind and crush your spirit, I don’t know what will. A sentence from a manuscript I am editing:
When we exited the building we found Dracula standing by a prairie schooner with a team of six horses hooked up to it, when he saw us Dracula said, “It’s about time, I have been waiting out here for an hour.”
Continue Reading–7 words totally
If this doesn’t destroy your mind and crush your spirit, I don’t know what will. A sentence from a manuscript I am editing:
When we exited the building we found Dracula standing by a prairie schooner with a team of six horses hooked up to it, when he saw us Dracula said, “It’s about time, I have been waiting out here for an hour.”
It’s not all fun and games, you know. This thing just goes ON and ON and ON.
Clearly you didn’t read the warning at the start of the book. It plainly states that if you don’t have an imagination, you won’t enjoy the story. Perhaps you should inform the author about the missing commas and leave it at that. It’s hopeless.
The warning was:
Hello, my name is Thomas Walker,. and before you read this book I would like to warn you that, if you really like believing the lies they tell on the news, if you like living in blissful ignorance. Then please, do not read on, but, If you are a truth seeker, if you want to know what really exists out there, then turn the page.
My first mistake was in turning the page.
I’m sorry. So, so sorry.
On her own blog, Andrea just wrote a post titled..Sunny Mittens
thanks.
there wasn’t enough white wine in the world to make that a bearable manuscript. but i finished it, FINALLY, and never have to read about dracula and werewolves and The Necromancer again. good heavens.
Oh. Ouch. I am truly sorry. And realizing, with a wince, that i will be reading endless pages of similar when my first papers come in. One of my favorite ridiculous statements ever in a paper came from a student who was writing about early Native Californians and persisted in observing in every single paper she wrote for an entire semester (in spite of repeated attempts on my part to stop her) that the tribe in question had “good waterfowl support”. I kept imagining dive-bombing ducks making all the difference in territorial disputes.
DIVE-BOMBING DUCKS! I know we all have our crosses to bear, reading such awful writing, but other people’s always sound at least more “interesting.” I’d trade you one necromancer for one good waterfowl support.