Saturday, July 19, 2008

Editing...Wish I knew how!

Some people feel it is a good thing to be ones own worst critic, and some are so arrogant they never find fault with themselves. These are samples of the two extremes.

I guess most recently I would fall into the category of the former in the above statement, and I don't think I can actually ever say that as far as the latter goes I have ever been that overly confident in life.
As a parent I always wanted our sons to be confident and assured of themselves.

A very wise person once told me that the greatest gift you could give to any child is confidence, and then they can accomplish anything!

But there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and it has been my experience in life that many acquaintances that I have met have crossed it, and that is why they were only acquaintances.

I mentioned this problem only due to all the grammatical mistakes I keep finding after the fact in this blog. Redundancy is rampant, so are run on sentences, wrong punctuation and word tenses are used on occasion too, boy what a mess!

The biggest difficulty for me is re-writing these over and over, and then finding another small mistake. So I am asking anyone who may be reading any of this please to be patient, kind and understanding; I'm no genius. But I know you know that! Did I mention that MS has an effect on your cognitive ability? I'll take anything I can get for help, but sadly that is true.
I am just a woman who enjoys writing, but is somewhat of a hack.

I really would love to take some more classes in creative writing, but I can't seem to locate any locally. It's been years since my college journalism, and also quite a few years have passed since I was in that writer's workshop. That was great fun! Anyone hear of any classes please let me know?

Today Al and I went to our local Fisherman's Village where there was to be a Home and Garden Show, in my opinion it was severely lacking in those titled items.
Only two booths had anything to do with plants,one had orchids and the other had some garden plants, but same old same old, and that was the same for the home items.
Usually, you expect to see new innovations/products for the home such as interesting bathroom fixtures, kitchen appliances, and tech items like home theaters or even some outdoor room ideas, etc.
Nada zilch was what there was; very disappointing.

They did have some exterior or interior art work, which I always enjoy, but they also had two jewelery cleaning stands, and the older salesman was rather rude.
He offered to clean a piece of jewelery, and I let him, but as he was doing it he wanted me to buy his product of course and I said when it was done we could talk.
I really couldn't tell if it was any better than when it was before so I was not interested in purchasing his product, and he behaved nasty.
Needless to say we left him stewing.

Although, one booth also not having to do with their theme was where a young woman was selling her personal creation cooling scarves; I bought one and it did work!

After we left there we went to the grocery to pick up a few items, and then on to home for lunch.
I started my Patterson book after lunch, and so far it is a very interesting Alex Cross one from 2003 that I missed somehow.

Have a great evening and we will too.

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