Grammar Girl # 49

Again, I am tasked with writing about my weakest subject in the academic world, grammar. I envy the writers that can sit at a computer and create a beautiful passage without the red and green squiggles of stupidity. Well, that is how I feel sometime. Nothing stops my creative juices from flowing than a squiggle red or green. I feel great before I sit down to write, then as my thought flow faster than my finger can type they happen. Squiggle after squiggle, slowly changing my creative juices into paranoia and self-doubt. Last weeks Grammar Girl discussed comma splicing which was very painful. This week however, my confidence is back. I can truly say that I have a handle on run-on sentences. I have not received the crushing news that I have committed the writing sin of run-on sentences. My sins are that of comma usage or the lack there of, grammar sins such as using then instead of than (I am good at that one). However, my all time favorite has to be the lack of proof reading. I fear not for I know that writing is a work in progress and I am working to progress.