Memoir As Fiction



Everyone's heard about memoirs which included stories or facts that didn't actually happen in the authors' lives, or were exaggerated. Oprah Winfrey had the wool pulled over her eyes twice, & when I ran my book review site, RebeccasReads.com/archives, I got hoodwinked too.



The trouble was this author wasn't who or what he said he was. His prestigious literary agent got him a three book contract with a Top Gun publishing house. He even won an… Continue

Conjunctionitis



When I was an editor polishing others' words, I noticed an epidemic of this but bug. Some efforts were but awful. So I would offer an exercise learnt during my Human Potential Movement trainings, back in the '70s.



Lesson

Consider the number of times a day you think, hear, speak & write the word but. Now why, you mutter, does this matter? Remember those backhanded compliments: "Thanks but it must have cost..." "That's nice but..." "You… Continue

Who vs whom



I'm a peaceable qwerty queen with a preference for giggling rather than quarreling. A relaxed kinda writer with a 1950s English girls' school education, although I'm now a long-ago presidentially welcomed, hand-on-my-heart pledger-of-allegiance, standing up anthem-singing, voting American citizen with an ear for slang. That is until I'm reading a Middle Ages tale about a group of English pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem & one of 'em ups & says "About whom are… Continue