I know I haven’t blogged an awful lot recently, but I’m beavering (ooer!) away on my book. I Twitter a lot more than I used to (which is still hardly ever) but I’ve jigged the whole thing up so that anything I add to my FriendFeed goes to Twitter as well—so that covers most of my social bookmarking day-to-day.
So if you really MUST know what I’m reading and researching for the book, follow me!
Cover artwork for my book:
Fucking hell babe, even the bit on the back has got too many commas. You lovely thing.
OH OH but I really like the stained glass window effect! Dead good!
And where’s my quote: “This book is utter gash” – Lucy Kibble.
Saving that for the second revision :)
..and the commas are fine—bitchlegs!
I think if you’re going to write a book, you should spend the few bucks for an upgrade to a real domain name. :)
Good luck on your writing!
Daniel Florien:
Do you know about how I might keep the site exactly as it is, except move it to another domain? I’ve tried exporting wordpress and importing it to a hosted installation before—but despite saying that everything had worked, non of the images downloaded and a bunch of other things went wrong too.
Looks great!
It’s probably too late to help you out with your project, but here’s a link to my (sadly, longer than paragraph-length) reasons for being an atheist.
Commas, as well as the subordinate clauses they nestle, are the mark of a thinker. Don’t let yourself be dissuaded. Good grammar will save the world.
SarahHeartburn:
I do go overboard with commas sometimes. It is a rhythm of writing thing—but when I read back what I’ve written, from a contextual point of view, too many of them do tend to break things up too much. It’s a finger tap typists habit, rather than the cerebral mechanism you generously credit me for. See, even as I wrote that last line, I I put a comma before you and after mechanism. Unnecessary.
What you are saying in the book is more important than anything and I think you have some important things to say!