Showing posts with label writing style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing style. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

My Supe

Jen Wright has issues with my habit of ending sentences with a preposition at. I didn't really need to end that sentence with at. I just wanted to end it with a preposition. Ha - take that!

I'm writing two pieces for a FABA (stands for Financial and Business Assistance) section newsletter. For each piece I'm supposed to write a couple paragraphs that will appear on the front "page" of the newsletter. Each will also be linked to another page with the rest of the article.

So I need to make the first couple paragraphs interesting, right!? I wrote them in my usual style - just like I talk. Jen is a more formal kinda gal. (I didn't use words like I do in this blog that aren't real words like kinda) But I did, evidently end two sentences with with. A preposition. Shit!

I am not a bad writer, but suppose I've gotten a bit sloppy when it comes to English Rules. Jen's father was some kinda English guru. So she's a stickler for those rules. I ended up re-writing the first paragraph of one of my articles - twice. I honestly think the article did end up better in the end.

It hurts my big giant ego when people rip my writing. But I took this pretty well. Jen says the rest of the section people wrote their articles in a more formal style than I did. More her style. I think they're prolly boring!