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June Bugs & Elderberry Wine: "Invalid Entry"  Sun, Jun 21, 2009,"AUTHORS DISCUSSION CLUB JUNE NEWSLETTERÂ Good morning, dear CLUB! Hello the house. Here's a blurb mess which bothers me as a reader. As a result, I try harder with each new essay or chapter to avoid the following words: get, getting, got, going to, going, go, gonna ... Whenever I spy excessive use ...Then, a little light blinks behind my left eye patch. All of these words are overused just like: has, was, have & been. Today, offering a writing exercise. Now, if you chose to accept your author's mission today ... without first turning to an online search as is our ken as internet writers, users and readers ... Nor grabbing your favorite three pound or less dictionary ... Please proceed to step one for: Sunday, June 21's ADC silly writing exercise. Meanwhile remain mindful re: "get" being slang in many cases. I get eggs & butter at the dairy. Which really should be == I buy eggs ... E.g. My Doberman got my Sunday paper. Clara got the phone call. Well, there's the drift as this NL covers OVERUSES of getting, get, got, gonna, go and sometimes give. STEP ONE: Use 'get' aloud with your family or pals. Write down all brainwaves resulting in things like get over it, get lost, get me a cup of tea, please. Many websites insist on us GETTING STARTED. Could be simply STARTING or START. Point being how are you doing so far? Me? I am getting lost trying to not get stuck (avoid) my own overuse of GET in my 2009 serial: NEVER BUY A VAMPIRE LUNCH. Available on "Invalid Item" Not to worry, I'll get over it. Besides going to try baiting readers while offering theme for mystical magic used in fiction. When a character is a witch who rather goes overboard in setting. Getting the setting just right for the goings on is underway in this current novel. [pass key for the above: 4767] Sample: Above, please note: way too much gotta go. etc. Sorry. Thus, rewriting this one sentence above. From: "getting lost" above ... "Not to worry, my latest work in progress bothers me less, although time consuming like most writing. Recaps bait readers ala theme of supernatural fiction. A first person narration with an accurately researched geographic setting awaits an audience which enjoys a comedic-realism blend." Did I fall under the tractor wheels and plow up a "get-go" the second time? NO. Good. Published works by British authors as well as here in the sates, dear CLUB, completely accept the word, get. As does WEBSTER. STEP 2: Look up GET STEP 3: Record meanings besides the word 'get' in a brief one word entry. Thus, I got lost... becomes I became lost. Take this onto: Sara Jane, please bring me a glass of sweet tea. MORTIMER! Answer the door! OF: Get out of town! --- Slang now for an exclamation me: WOW! Sure this phrase sounds great. Although here 'get' means depart, leave. So? Should an author, any author ----> Get over get? Another form of 'get over' applies to scams. In an intriguing part of a story should an author hold back? Bait readers? Sure. Why? To pull it off, 'get one over' on the audience (readers) an author must misaim, pulling one off track intentionally TO KEEP THEM READING. E.g. A story character might functionally embezzle whatever he likes by getting over on the guys at the bank. (Witty sample.) Get over it --- also means: cease or don't retrieve these repetitiously savvy 'get overuses' forevermore. Perhaps, I fear waking up one day and all there remains to witness is one word left in the entire vocabulary, as we know it. And it is get. Which, BEGETS, supplicates and carries many a long mile's worth of inferred verb sandwiches, noticed this morning while getting up. Ooops. Awaking. Get as movement, lifting. Sure, rising torso from bed. STEP 4: When reading check any read for this silly and impromptu G-List repeated below. STEP 5: NOTE: Your favorite, printed & published, popular authors may now shock you once more. E.g. From: A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS By James Lee Burke, Chapter 4, p.54 .. Publisher: Little Brown & Co ... 1990. "Come on, we're not going to let a short trip get us down, are we?" Me: Sadden, depress, foil the road trip. STEP 6: Shall one consider differences in vocab choice aiming toward high falutin' without "get" and the G-List? Today? Well, take "dare to be different" to heart then perhaps examine whatever prompts those peculiar word choices pandering to the G-LIST, worldwide. STEP 7: After thoroughly feeling cheated IF discovering authors whose books sell for $1.95 to $12.95 (kidding aside) Â didn't use better humdingers ... well ... STEP 8: Bring it to "RIDING THE WRITERS' WAVE FORUM"Â Give it up! Get in the mood, help us get away from "get." STEP 9: Devise your own G-List equivalents any day of the week as suits. Our speech is smitten with 'get.' While chatting, one may check the G-List, also. When posting --- Make us laugh, entertain us, or educate us. So we might all enjoy this much colloquially, vernacular sided take on Teffy's G-LIST.* *Not to be confused with any FBI most wanted Government list. Course not. Whatdya think I am turning into (getting to be) a Gringo on Lingo? Well, if we lighten the load of English usage, laugh a bit, we might recall this silliness downa CLUB. Wit is always a pertinent educational/ teaching ploy whenever light humour applies to subject matter. Everybody does it, everybody blogs, everybody posts, everybody writes, everybody reads --- kinda gleaned from online searches re: English usage, and how-to/ how-not-to write advice. For the dry subject of English Writing, I specifically adore articles when English usage scrapers make it funny. Seriously, my opinion runs: Literature in modern times is complacent and condones the overuse of 'get.' Sub-behavioral objective: Goal: We get ... Sorry. We gather replacements for the G-List, sail into that vast, great unknown with full aplomb as we potentially shine & present our talents while we ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** G-LIST: get, getting, gets, going, goes, go, gives, gave, gonna, got, gotta Are there 'GOING TO BE" Any more? Be well,  From TEFF LOVES JUNE "Invalid Item" Â talking writing in JUNE 2009! IF interested in NEVER BUY A VAMPIRE LUNCH, please email for pass key. Thanks with apologies on overwriting during ADC's JUNE NEWSLETTER, a show & tell for this verbose verb take. Naturally, a trite sampling of what's going on ... oops happening out there in the online world of INTERNET AUTHORSHIP. Au revoir, mon amis |
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