Welcome
readers, writers, authors, and bloggers!
We're
glad you're here! It's the First Wednesday of the month; when we
celebrate IWSG Day in the form of a
blog hop featuring members and guests of the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Founded by author Alex Cavanaugh (Thank you,
Captain!) and fostered by like-minded associates, IWSG is a comfortable place
to share views and literary news as we record our journeys. Check out the September newsletter here.
The awesome co-hosts for this month’s posting
of the IWSG are: Beth Camp, Jean Davis, Yvonne Ventresca, and PJ Colando!
Today’s
entirely optional question: Since
it's back to school time, let's talk English class. What's a writing rule you
learned in school that messed you up as a writer?
Happy September everyone! May we all keep in mind, it’s be kind to Writers and Editors month, and please, please accept my humble apologies for bombing my hosting duties last month while I had my very first (and hopefully last) go-around with Covid. It was just as
dreadful as I expected, but I’ve lived to tell about it!
However,
I’d rather just talk about how my name has caused some confusion in my Rules of English universe (getting back to the question).
Honestly,
most of my teachers mispronounced my name. Some couldn’t even spell it
correctly. I get it, there is more than one way to spell it. But, here in
America anyway, the delightfully inconsistent rule: I Before E except
after C (which was created after the exceptions) or, as I discovered along the way, except after B,E, F, K, N, R, S, and W is still happily
taught across America. Oh, it’s not so bad. My husband understands how I feel.
His name is Reid.
Can’t
wait to come around and see what you all have to say on the subject!
Happy
writing ;-)
