I really, really loved this episode - with two of my favorite writers/contemporaries!
I guess I can't add much to that. I love peeking into your brains, guys. I'd pay good money to sit in on a marathon session of you two just talking about all things books, marketing, and story. Between the two of you, you have mind-blowing ideas. I don't know how you two ever sleep (assuming you do).
I feel like you're eons beyond me. And, frankly, I'm a bit worried about Jody's black marker.
I rarely, I mean next-to-never show my snooty grammar love. It bothers most people. And I am not driven to comment if other writers don't use my preferred conventions. It was something about the day I opened that book. Maybe I was feeling insecure. But I also do think grammar is important, and there's a big part of me that pushed back when people flippantly say rules are there to be broken. (Every time I let the grammar nerd out, people come back to me with a list of typos and usage violations in my own work and it never feels good!)
I had forgotten our exchange about how we each receive criticism.
To that end, in fact, I offer a strongly enthusiastic positive affirmation of both your role as the host and producer of an enjoyably entertaining and informatively educational podcast, as well as the writer of engaging and captivating fiction stories and novels. (Repetition and redundancy intentional. Take your black marker to that! 😉)
Someday soon I'll have my friend Joe Salvatore on the podcast, and he will share his love of grammar in a way that both makes me feel scared to discuss parts of speech with him and inspires me to what our language is capable of.
Indeed. I cringed hearing him say that. When we recorded, he hadn't shared the specific examples he mentions at the beginning. Yes, in a strict grammar point of view, his case can be valid, but I will counter that he sounds like the emperor's criticism of Mozart's Don Giavanni: "Too many notes." Where I would say a story has exactly as many words as it needs to get from the beginning to the end without allowing the reader to fall through a hole in the plot.
I really, really loved this episode - with two of my favorite writers/contemporaries!
I guess I can't add much to that. I love peeking into your brains, guys. I'd pay good money to sit in on a marathon session of you two just talking about all things books, marketing, and story. Between the two of you, you have mind-blowing ideas. I don't know how you two ever sleep (assuming you do).
I feel like you're eons beyond me. And, frankly, I'm a bit worried about Jody's black marker.
I rarely, I mean next-to-never show my snooty grammar love. It bothers most people. And I am not driven to comment if other writers don't use my preferred conventions. It was something about the day I opened that book. Maybe I was feeling insecure. But I also do think grammar is important, and there's a big part of me that pushed back when people flippantly say rules are there to be broken. (Every time I let the grammar nerd out, people come back to me with a list of typos and usage violations in my own work and it never feels good!)
This episode was one of my favorite episodes ever. It was just fun and "behind the curtain" stuff. Both you and Rich. Excellent!
I had forgotten our exchange about how we each receive criticism.
To that end, in fact, I offer a strongly enthusiastic positive affirmation of both your role as the host and producer of an enjoyably entertaining and informatively educational podcast, as well as the writer of engaging and captivating fiction stories and novels. (Repetition and redundancy intentional. Take your black marker to that! 😉)
I hope it counts for something that I know I'm a snoot about grammar… :)
Of course!
I actually envy people who have a mastery (or at least a sound understanding) of grammar.
I'm still getting yelled at by my grammar checker every day, but I find it a welcome tool on my journey of daily improvement.
Someday soon I'll have my friend Joe Salvatore on the podcast, and he will share his love of grammar in a way that both makes me feel scared to discuss parts of speech with him and inspires me to what our language is capable of.
Indeed. I cringed hearing him say that. When we recorded, he hadn't shared the specific examples he mentions at the beginning. Yes, in a strict grammar point of view, his case can be valid, but I will counter that he sounds like the emperor's criticism of Mozart's Don Giavanni: "Too many notes." Where I would say a story has exactly as many words as it needs to get from the beginning to the end without allowing the reader to fall through a hole in the plot.