Thanks, Kaye, for the new word and the info on your story. MM

Kaye, my comments are within your assignment. Thanks for participating in this workshop. MM

Thank you, Jeanne. 30 first graders -- I think you are the brave one!!! Hope you have a wonderful school year! A friend of mine has a new job teaching 2nd graders. I do miss all of the pre-school...

Margaret, my comments are within your assignment. Any questions? MM

Janet, thanks for the info, MM.

You're welcome. MM

Janet, yes, this punctuation class covers commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, dialogue punctuation, dashes, ellipses, and parentheses.

MM

Janet, my comments are within your assignment. Any questions? MM

Janet, I agree with you on traveled. You really did super on these quizzes. MM

Janet, my comments are within your assignment. Overall, you did well. MM

[I would cut as he said. Put a period after night. Then begin your dialogue. We know who's speaking because of the beat...

Kaye, your revisions are very good. I have a few comments within your assigment. MM

Jeanne, you did a very good job here. I have some comments within your assignment. MM

Margaret, your revisions are very good. I have a few comments within your assignment. MM

Comfort, your revisions are very good. I have one comment within your assignment. MM

Kay, mother's milk? That's a new one! When your narrator asks for fresh milk, she doesn't say where she wants it from, so how does the servant know to bring back human milk? Your narrator is a...

Here's that list of verbs I mentioned in a lesson. MM
Lots of Verbs

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For "walked"
or "ran"
lumbered
plodded
scurried
sidled

Please post your homework and questions for lesson 5 here. MM

Become a Better Editor of Your Own Work
Lesson 5

Lesson 5 – our last lesson. Stifle your sniffles. All good things must come to an end. Besides, I have seven more workshops scheduled for 2012...

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Please post your homework and questions for Lesson 4 here. MM

Become a Better Editor of Your Own Work

Lesson 4

Strategy #4: Use the FIND and REPLACE commands in your word-processing program.
I am very fond of FIND and REPLACE. I’ll show you how to...

Thank you, Janet, for your stamp of approval. MM

Thanks for explaining sap to me. I'm not up on my 20's slang. MM

Jeanne, you need a comma after you in "Nice to meet you, Miss," Miss is a noun of direct address.

about thoughts: most editors say if you are in the character's pov, your reader will know that he...

Kaye, all of your apostrophes are perfect. So are your commas and semicolons.

Who's Eddie? Where can I find him? Do you happen to know a contract killer I can hire?
If I were still living in...