Dragon by Lee Young
It is a most distresing thing,
However many times.
That I will go through editnig,
I still uncover crimes
By punctuation grammar; too;
Or simply of a the word
That’s one too many, one – few,
Or simply is obzurd;
No matter that, time and again,
I root out every flaw/
I look agen, and that is when
I sea a dozen more;
i think some evil imp waits there
To change the thigs around:
No mat-ter how mush sweat and care –
Be sure, more faults are, found!
When reeding threw a ‘final” file
The prawblems that I find
Are going, in quite short a wile,
To drive me from my mind!
At least I no no errors lurk
In this hear bit of prose
F or al misteaks, wif lot’s ov wurk,
I done makes sure has goes.
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Ah, another qualifier for the veteran’s badge!
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LOVE this. Here goes. I’m going to type and not correct. This was a great poem that really resommated with me because I have a reallly hard time punchimg the right key int he right order. has something to do wih my brain fog realated to my chromic fatighue syndrome, taht;s why I had to stop teaching. At least English wans’t my disiplin! (See what I mean?–I corrected several things in these parentheses!)
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You have made your point!
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How very fustrating, Col! I used to hate my teacher’s red pen. 😦 Your pome is a real classic. 😀
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I don’t mind doing the red pen bit myself so much, but I hate receiving some back from other editors!
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hahahahaha very bad 🙂 and very good
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Mainly bad!
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I tend to make missteaks and avoid correcting the abvious.
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I am sure you are imagunning the erors!
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Hope you eventually find all those errors!
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If I don’t (on the ones done professionally) I am taking money under false pretences! Although some things do creep in with subsequent reformats and such.
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I know the filling werl.
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We are all overstocked with that teeshirt!
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Seriously. I sometimes wonder if a piece of work will ever be ”just right”.
As much as I love those two three letter words I so often dread them.
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That is when the fun part is over and frustration starts …
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Between you and Miss Whip Lash – I’m in tears laughing! Fantastic job!! I have to pass on the link to this one!!
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Glad you enjoyed. It is such fun when someone else also comes on board!
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It seems to me, young man, my friend
That you are going round the bend.
At first I thought ‘there’s a mistake’
but then another fell in its wake.
The more I read, the worse it got
the spelling and the grammar
so if things go wrong and you can’t spell
Hit it with a hammer….
this awful poem comes to you with love
I had some help from Heaven above
He is my friend . I know Him well
There’s many a tale that He could tell
But He says ‘just write a line’
It does not matter that it don’t rhyme
so off I go with finger and nail
leaving a gar-dawn awful trail
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A classic footnote to my footling!
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Great. I shudder for your thus castigated authors. And the significance of the otherwise splendid dragon is… ?
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The poor unfortunates, indeed.
Ah, yes. I’m glad you asked about the dragon. Everyone else was too stupid/polite. I could claim it is because some writers drag on a bit. However, I have to confess that I was looking for a picture to accompany the post, and this one shouted, ‘Take me!’ Does it have to be relevant?
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Revelant? Goodness, no. But I’m sorry I had to worm it out of you..
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Are you revving me with the revelant?
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Lol!!! I love it. Thanks for the laugh Col 🙂
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I feel your pain in this Col. It happens, too often, with me too.
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Ek dink jou vingers was net op verkeerde toetse geplaas..as jy dalk met al jou vingers tik elkeen op regte toets – so blindtik – !
Maar minstens kry my spel weer oefening..
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Editors. Good ones are platinum.
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Indeed. I hope I went tin for gold, anyway!
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Read trough that poem seven times. I think I spotted a spelling error but I could be werong. Better you check it again.
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*gasp* Oh, no! An error? Oh woe is me! *checks madly* Can’t see it.
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Actually hard to edit one’s own stuff!
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One can do the rough stuff. After that, it needs fresh eyes and mind. Amazing the ability to see what one expects to see rather than what is actually there!
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As in life too I suppose
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Amen.
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I proof read my book twice before sending it to the grammar Nazi I have for an editor and she sent me back something that had so much red in it that it looked like it had been used to clean up after a murder.
Your poem however appears perfect and has now become MY favorite poem of all time!:)
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I’ve found a shortcut . . . instead of reading and re-reading, I hit “publish”, and immediately 20-30 errors jump out at me!
It saves time and effort.
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Oh, yes. That works perfectly.
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That’s how I do it, as well. My blog posts usually get edited at least 5 times for boobs, typos and second thoughts.
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Tell me about it! I can’t sign something off until I have done a clear read through. And then there is always author knows best…
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That last bit was something I raised in the ‘lost’ comment on your blog – a blatantly repeated phrase in the opening paragraphs. ‘Done for effect,’ says he. ‘Too risky,’ says I. ‘I WANT it!’ says he …
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Ah. Just read one of those opening page things recently. The odd spelling error, bad grammar and repetitive phrasing. Great start eh?
Repeated phrasing can work but only when done very well. And not on the first page. To me.
Most books go through a continuum, loads of errors up front, groan, then a nice relax, until more in the middle, and more at the end. Says a lot about the writing. And then there are the ones that are full of errors from start to finish…
Editing is balancing a fine line between authors’ egos, money and abysmal grammar. I priced for something recently that has been edited twice, TWICE!! and is still full of errors.
Now what else did the lost comment say? 😀
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Your red writing here must have had many matching red lines! Nite, nite!
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Red lines? Red lines? Oh, c’mon! It is PERFECT!
Nite!
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