Language

Here's an excerpt from the piece I wrote for God's World News last week:

To grow up with English teachers in the house is to love wrangling over language. My family made a team sport of arguing minor points of grammar. Each of us had a specialty: Dad monitored pronoun-antecedent use; Mom policed comma rules; Sis investigated mistakes with as—as and so—as. And I, I took the road less traveled by concerning possessives before gerunds. Together we critiqued the punctuation, usage, spelling, and mechanics of much of the Southeast. No “Cantaloupe’s $2” sign went unnoticed; no church bulletin was safe.

 The piece ran on the website this week, and I've already received comments about it both from people I know as well as people I don't know. How rewarding to write and then hear from people who were encouraged by what you had to say.

Whew!

I haven't posted in quite a while--not because I'm not writing but because I am writing . . . a lot. My freelancing is keeping me hopping. I now have a weekly piece on the GWN website.

I've also been asked to write an Easter play for 2012. That project has been very interesting and challenging. I've roughed the initial concept now and written some first drafts of scenes. The play is due to the producer in January, so I feel good about where I am with it right now.

Am I allowed to say that my writing is keeping me from writing? Hmmmm . . .