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“There is a great need for a sarcasm font.”
Why? Because of all those pesky ‘ly’ words we writers aren’t supposed to use, yet every other published author does. Come on, raise your hand if you’ve ever heard some author/agent/editor/writing guru pontificate on how writers should never, ever, ever, use adverbs, especially in dialogue tags. If you do, you risk rejection,…
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Added by Stephen Lawrence Brayton on November 30, 2012 at 7:54am —
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Yesterday I received a post from my daughter forwarded to her from friends. It was a wonderful revelation of the story clotheslines once told about a family's life. I had to laugh at the rules listed, for they were exactly those my mother and later I followed. There was a special way to hang out the clothes. Oh, yes, we once actually hung our washed laundry on lines out in the sunlight and wind.
Though we lived in the country when I was small, a place where there were no clotheslines…
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Added by Velda Brotherton on July 9, 2012 at 9:32pm —
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