The Evil Queen: Punctuation

Me and Punctuation have a strained relationship. I hate it, it hates me, and yet we still try to live in harmony for the benefit of you fine people. The perfect example of how I feel about punctuation comes from my parents. I believe I was in sixth grade, or so the story goes, and had an assignment to write a story for school.  I sat down at the computer and typed out my self described 'brilliant' piece of literature. I printed it and excitedly ran out to my parents, the pages held in my hot little hands. I sat anxiously as they read over the story. After words they both looked up at me a bit bewildered.

"Well, " I said, practically bouncing out of my chair. "what did you think?"

"Devri, there is no punctuation," they ventured cautiously "Not anywhere. It is all one big sentence."

I was exasperated, "I know, I know. But what did you think of the STORY?!" I could not understand how such a small thing as punctuation could take away from the brilliance they had just experienced.

Alright, I get it now. It is distracting when the punctuation is a mess. I am a tad better than I once was, although it is still sad. In a almost freaky coincidence in a time of need, in walked Ciera, to save my 'attempting to publish a book' rear end. Editor and advisor extraordinaire. She had the painful job of pouring over my manuscript trying to fix all of my punctuation and grammatical errors.

Pity her, you all should pity her.

I am grateful she saw enough potential in my writing to work on it, (have I mentioned that I love her!) On top of that, the darling girl is also going to check my blog posts so I don't look like a complete moron. (Have I mentioned I love her? You should too, any that would like to send fruit baskets, or chocolate rose bouquets, I will send you her address.) That being said, if you are reading through a post that is a little, sad, in the technical department. Have no fear, Ciera the amazing must not have made it there yet. Don't fret she will be there soon as no error can be left uncorrected, no grammatical stone unturned. I really should make that girl a super hero cape… if only I knew how to sew.