QUOTE (William Shakespeare)

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man know himself to be a fool.”
~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V 

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

 “Now, God be praised, that to believing souls give light to darkness, comfort in despair.”
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet

In honor of William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, who is believed to have died on this day in 1616.

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QUOTE (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

 

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In honor of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, noble prize winning author and Soviet Union dissident, exiled from communist Russia on this day in 1974.

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QUOTE (George Orwell)

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
~ George Orwell

In honor of George Orwell, British author of Animal Farm, who died on this day in 1950.

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ADVICE – The Three Stages of Editing

In my ADVICE – How to Become a Better Writer blog post, I initially had a spelling error in the title.  It was just a slightly more public reminder of my continuing struggles with editing.

Long ago, my wife noted my struggles and merciful took upon herself the task of being my editor.  It is not an easy task.  She surely did not realize what she was getting into when she agreed.  In bewilderment, she regularly calls me over to read a sentence I have written.  I will read out loud a sentence of pure literature only to have her point out that the words I spoke were not the words I had written.  My brain simply compensates, substituting what I intended to write, despite what my fingers might actually type.  If the world could only hear what things sound like in my head, I would win a Pulitzer.

Given my propensity for writing errors, my wife is not very sympathetic when I embarrass myself by going rogue and publishing a blog prior to her editing.

That is what happened with “ADVICE – How to Become a Better Writer”.  It was short, I reasoned, ‘How could I messed that up?’  Evidently, I don’t even require a full sentence to make an editing mistake.  I can do it in a title.

My wife and son are out-of-town at a NCFCA speech and debate tournament so I am without my beloved editor.  I could refrain from publishing anything until she returns but what is the fun in that?  Therefore, I apologize in advance because it is going to be a rough couple days.  I did some research in anticipation of my impending difficulties and went looking for some advice on how to improve my editing.

I thought I would pass along some of the good advice I found from The Three Stages of Editing .  We will see how it works over the next couple days…starting now.

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