tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post3637272188973269071..comments2024-02-06T02:59:49.014-08:00Comments on All About Children's Books: Three Common Punctuation ProblemsAll About Children's Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14260950754479994222noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post-8049308364602258722013-07-05T10:13:17.748-07:002013-07-05T10:13:17.748-07:00I'm really impressed along with your writing s...I'm really impressed along with your writing skills as well as with the structure to your blog. Is this a paid topic or did you modify it yourself? Anyway keep up the nice quality writing, it's rare <br />to look a nice weblog like this one these days.<br />.<br /><br />My web page <a href="http://katalog.nextforum.pl/rozrywka/gry,p,421/" rel="nofollow">wirtualny spacer po krakowie</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post-60622634516013566652012-12-07T14:36:20.735-08:002012-12-07T14:36:20.735-08:00Yes, I will have a dangling post soon. All those d...Yes, I will have a dangling post soon. All those dang dangling things when using proper English.<br /><br />I have a love/hate relationship with the Chicago Manual of Style.<br />Yes, I have to use it often, but it's heavy and it makes my brain hurt.<br /><br />So sorry you're laid up for awhile. Maybe you can balance that regular size keyboard on the Chicago Manual.All About Children's Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260950754479994222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post-58081237061280185862012-12-06T20:07:13.175-08:002012-12-06T20:07:13.175-08:00Not a fan of Chicago or just its most famous book?...Not a fan of Chicago or just its most famous book? It has a pretty blue cover and it has a lovely font. What's not to like? Unless, and this must be it, you have a beautiful front door and like to greet your guests in style. <br /><br />I'm glad you are going to explain the dangling modifier, participle, and something or other--who can remember all of this stuff unless an English major? That's why I keep the Chicago Manual of Style right by my desk. Problem is, I must write in bed for a few weeks. Nothing worse than trying to use a regular size keyboard balanced on your legs while typing.<br /><br />I will be here when you are dangling.<br />Sue @ Kid Lit Reviewshttp://kid-lit-reviews.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post-53452139819898259752012-12-04T18:02:51.294-08:002012-12-04T18:02:51.294-08:00Hi Sue. Thanks for commenting. I love the em-dash ...Hi Sue. Thanks for commenting. I love the em-dash too. Commas, semi-colon, dangling modifiers and dangling participle will all be in a later lesson. Stay tuned. <br /><br />I agree with the right brain, left brain thinking. When I am writing a story, my creative brain is turned on with no regards<br />to the Chicago Manual. That comes later, in the editing stage. Then the punctuation and sentence structure gets a firm grip while in the technical brain mode.<br /><br />The Chicago Manual is also a good book to have close to your front door---you know, in case of intruders.<br /><br />All About Children's Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260950754479994222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253065890761255545.post-8447175335008822672012-12-03T21:47:30.637-08:002012-12-03T21:47:30.637-08:00Go figure, indeed. I love the em-dash. Ever since ...Go figure, indeed. I love the em-dash. Ever since I learned how to use it correctly I found I should have been using it more than I had. Maybe this is because there is always more than two thoughts in my head, all fighting for attention.<br /><br />It seems the use of the parenthesis is moving over for the em-dash, which is fine by me. I think the em-dash looks cool--yep, that em-dash.<br /><br />What about comma versus semi-colon? And what the heck is a dangling-modifier? <br /><br />Who's idea was it to have so many rules that the Chicago manual is nearly two inches thick, with thin paper?<br /><br />Thanks Diane. You helped take some fog off the Punctuation Center of my brain. Never heard of the Punctuation Center? It is in the left-side of the brain. <br /><br />This is why writers have such a difficult time remembering all these rules. The rules are stored in the left side and our creativity is in the right. <br /><br />When we are in our right minds we cannot get to the left side without stopping, if only for a nano-second, which is long enough for a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Idea to leap out of the right side into the oblivion of the left--or out the ear.Sue @ Kid Lit Reviewshttp://kid-lit-reviews.comnoreply@blogger.com