Net picky, as the grammar pullers might be, grammatical errors that get overlooked can make even the best of draft look bad and make readers doubt your command over with the craft. I call them the micro writing mistakes, the punctuation, the word choices, the spelling and other things that copy Editors usually catch. If you're lucky to have a good one, there are the little things like using there when you mean there or who instead of who
Also took me a while to realize that you can't just connect two separate thoughts with just a comma. You need a connecting coordinating conjunction in between. So apparently, when you do have two independent thoughts coming together in a sentence, you're better off using a semicolon than a coma. So this is something, something I learned quite recently as well. Just thought I'd share it here
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:28
I mean, that's something I used emphasis, although I don't know if there could be a sentence with was as the sentence. So don't know. I mean, there is art in writing. Also there's art and there's grammar. And you know what's interesting is lately I've come to realize that if your grammar isn't good, you just call it art. Okay, I'm joking, but I'm also serious, but that's all I have
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:53
And as someone who has worked as an editor in various capacities over the past decade, I sometimes think that we can focus too much on correct grammar without considering how it's impacting the work. So, for example, I do get really like I am that person that will notice the smallest detail and want to fix or change something to make it grammatically correct
Hey, Bowie, very interesting point that you brought up about the local dialect. So I agree with you. Writers kind of use dialect and accent to sometimes distinguished characters unique way of speaking. And by doing that, they kind of establish their cultural background or their social class. But I've seen this writing tool kind of go or a in some cases
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:46
And I am really curious what my friends at book club are going to say about this book, especially my Caucasian friends, because I'm just kind of like, what are they going to say about all these other words and stuff? And I know this is a grammar thing, but it's just since writing and words, I was just curious about those thoughts. I'm just going throw that out there. Thanks
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 4:26
And I don't want to read it because of this new trend that someone wants to actually start. And I do not understand why people do that. And I've seen this in poems, in prose and in short stories and some articles as well. You see this now that you have actually read this in a book, I'm amazed by that. Really. If someone is actually doing this in a book, I don't know what to say. I seriously have no idea what to say
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:53
I just saw this a couple of hours ago, and it infuriates me people with some of the best grammatical skills with so much going in the punctuation and whatnot but they can't for the life of me I can't understand. They can't. It won't use the correct spelling of the word Lose. That's my submission for now
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:40
So, you know, I was just curious about this whole thing of putting the language in English. I was just curious of how English speakers would take it, because I'm just trying to think, well, would they understand it, or would they just understand it by default like it wasn't that important? And or would they not understand it but be like, wow, that's really authentic, because these characters now are real
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 3:50
It's kind of like shoving and pushing and somehow making room for something that isn't supposed to be there. It makes no sense. It makes everything so I don't know. Lopsided. So this is what I was referring to. And I just thought that I was a little offputting when I first came across that. And then I saw this trend where everyone was doing it. And it was like my life and all that stuff
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:40
I'm reading through it. And yes, I'm going through the storyline and everything. But I'm also going through the grammar and the structure and seeing, are these sentences effective enough? Is there a better way to say this? Is there a sharper way to say this more effective way to say this? So I'm kind of going through all of that and I'm reading through it to see if I am entrance by the story or if it feels very clunky to me