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I keep getting weekly reports that say I must not be writing! I never logout and I see the little G with its error count too. Ugh!
posted by
Annicita
on February 13, 2022 at 8:04 PM
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Re: C_C_T
I am positive that once I have my wife here beside me, all of us (including the dogs) will feel and do better. She came from a family that kind of walked away from her due to her 'bad behavior.' She lost a husband (who wasn't really much of a husband) in a motorcycle accident, and I lost my wife due to a combination of stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia. I had come from an 'alright family,' but I left home at 16 due to the abuse I was getting from my mother. We both came up the hard way and became nurses, which is how we initially met.
Once we are together again, all will be good. We became each other's emotional bandages. Judy and I had an extremely close marriage, full of love and respect. Lisa had a decent marriage, but they argued all the time. Since we started seriously dating in late 2018, we have never 'loudly discussed' anything... and Lisa was not used to that kind of relationship. When you see her posting about how wonderful and secure she feels with me, it is because her previous marriage was filled with arguing and fighting. He was a good man, but he and Lisa were not in tune with each other.
As soon as our relationship became serious, I began to institute the same protocols I used with Judy to build a stronger and more loving relationship. She had never had anyone do that for her, and it still amazes her that I overlook the things others criticized. After a lifetime of being yelled at about everything, she still will ask me, 'Do you still love me?' I don't take that the way it could be taken. I just smile and say 'yes.' Sometimes, she will follow up and ask me, 'Why?' I know that question comes from being so abused in every relationship, from her teens on up.
The book I helped her write is titled 'Used & Abused.' (Ebook & Audible ) It contains a lot of sexual content and bad language, but it was her story, and she wanted me to write it as it happened. The result was a very touching story that ended when we married in August of 2020. It is one of those books and audio stories that sell A LOT! but don't get reviewed. Same thing with 'Conversations With A Street Whore.' It is probably my third best-selling story with only one review. The topic and language in it scare people away from rating it, but it sure doesn't keep them from buying it. It also has a lot of sexual content in it, but as I got to know this girl, and she sank deeper and deeper into a dangerous place, the reader begins to see why I wrote it. In the end, only the coldest of hearts wouldn't feel bad for the woman I had known from 1971 to 1994.
The man who 'took a chance' to narrate that story is also doing my new Vella story. He had to read it over several times before committing to the audio. In the end, he nailed it, and he said there were several places he had to stop narrating to stop himself from getting emotional. He said he got several other narrating jobs from the clips he posted as samples on ACX from that story. He told me that he learned a lot about narrating, but he also learned much about himself. Crazy, ain't it?
As always, thanks for stopping by!
V
posted by
BigV
on February 10, 2022 at 12:27 PM
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Pat_B
Typically, I override about twenty percent of its suggestions. I just couldn't understand why it was insisting I do it that way. My comma usage is getting better by having it on as I begin to instinctively remember where to put one.
I had an incredible freshman high school teacher and then a freshman college prof. I learned a lot from them. The college professor and I were friends well after leaving his college in 1972. He would stop over to our house quite frequently, and we always had a good time until he died in 2007. I miss him a lot. He taught from some weird book titled'Juxtapositions.' At first, I was taken aback, but I learned more from it than any other English handbook in my life. He always called us by our last names, i.e.' Mr. Greenhoe' or 'Miss Adams.'
Most of the time, I catch my errors as I type them. Most of the time. But when I get hot and heavy writing out a story, my fingers will screw up trying to keep up with my brain. It's crazy. Thanks for stopping by!
posted by
BigV
on February 10, 2022 at 11:51 AM
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I do not think I would like Grammarly. Too set in the training I got
from Mrs. Newton, my HS English teacher. BTW she had a Ph.D. from Oxford and was qualified to teach at university, but as an English war bride transported to the backwater that was Mossyrock in the Cascade foothills of western Washington, there was no college within 50+ miles.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 10, 2022 at 11:09 AM
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I know you will do your best, sadness feels like a black cloud inside one.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 10, 2022 at 11:01 AM
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