Just Another Writer's Journal

I'm really excited that my book, They're Watching You is finally published on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions. It's finally finished! I'm not sure what I'm more excited about; the fact that's it's there, or the fact that I don't have to go back and edit it again! A brief synopsis; it's a gay romance about a struggling musician who meets another musician, but their first meeting results in a misunderstanding, and then problems, and they dance around each other for a while before starting to date, and then their problems really begin. I'll be writing a bit more about the book shortly, but I just wanted to say; it's done! They're Watching You

I think that using a grammar checker can make you a bit self-conscious. You start noticing things about your writing: words and phrases you use a lot. For example, really. I seem to really like really. An interesting thing about English is how you can construct a sentence in several different word orders, and the results can virtually say the same thing, and be acceptable English. I had a sentence: I didn’t really even care about him. It wasn't actually flagged by the grammar checker, but I'd noticed my predilection for really—or more accurately, it had been pointed out that the word appeared frequently in another paragraph—and I went on a bit of an excise exercise. When I got to that sentence, something about it stood out. I realized that I could come up with different variations of the sentence that were virtually identical, but with different word orders: I didn’t really even care about him. I really didn’t even care about him. I didn’t even really care ab...