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I’ll freely admit it. This is a drive-by posting to show you the little guy. Must get nap in while new puppy does the same.
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>Editing help
>Have you ever used Michele Albert’s Cheat Sheets? I love them. They’re a great concise resource for a variety of writing topics. You can find them here:
On a whim today, I decided to look for filter words in my current WIP–or words that pull back from deep POV. Michele has a great number of overused and misused words to look for (find under Editing) as well as passive use words. But the filter words I found at Karen King’s website here under “Filtering – get out of the way”:
he/she felt
he/she heard
he/she saw
he/she looked
Began
Started
Seemed
Appeared
Knew
Realized
Figured
I figured I might have a few and could improve my prose, so I began a search and highlight operation. Sur-prise, sur-prise as Gomer Pyle used to say! My favorites are: seemed, began, looked, knew, and realized. Glad I caught those suckers. Of course, not every one can be eliminated, but most of them were unnecessary.
Happy editing!
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Picture my future
with this:
DH has his heart set on a new puppy. The apprehensive face you see here belongs to a Llewellyn setter, an upland bird dog, who is waiting for us in Arkansas. We’re slated to pick him up on the 15th of this month, when he’ll be 8 weeks old. His coloration is rare, a tri-color with chestnut. As he gets older he’ll have more ticking, or spots like the ones you can see barely visible on his forelegs.
Ain’t he cute?
Still, I’m not looking forward to potty training and the inevitable chewing and digging. Lord help me.
And then there’s Beau. What a handsome, well-behaved guy! Used to being top dog–hell, the only dog–and the apple of DH’s eye. Oh, okay, who am I kidding? I think he’s the bestest dog ever too. But how will he react to having his territory invaded?
Got any tips? Sage advice? Or do I just grit my teeth in hopes of blogging fodder and a possible article in a dog’s magazine out of the experience?
Speak up, please!
CAROL BURNSIDE / ANNIE RAYBURN 