What the Heck is This?

Friday, May 16, 2014

I'm a professional geek.  I'm also a writer.  And I field questions from fellow writers - or actually from anyone with a question.  About computers.  About computer-related scenes in your books.  About how to do all kinds of stuff to your manuscripts.  Got a question?  Why does my computer ...?  How do I do ... in Word?  Is this computer scene OK?  Can my hero/heroine do ... in my book?  Ask away.  We shall answer, one way or another.

And once in a while Conan the Grammarian shows up to cry over egregious (and not-so-egregious) grammar screw-ups.  So send questions about those, too.  Or examples of outrageous things that you've seen.  Or just stuff that made you giggle.  We promise to help make fun of them.

We want to make life simpler for you - so Conan doesn't use technical terms, namely because she can't remember them.  I do remember them, but I don't use them, either, if I can possibly avoid doing so.  Too much work.

By the way, Conan and I both cry over some of the more annoying internetty abbreviations, when we're not howling with laughter.  "UR" for "you're" or "your" being unanimously voted the most irritating.  There is a difference between the two words.  They are not interchangeable.

And Ur was a Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia.

Be forewarned - Grammarians and Writers tend to like the English language. So the internetty-kiddie-speak may be edited.  Or mocked.  Feel free to help us mock.

So welcome to my computer room/writing studio, and bring on the questions - and comments.

 
The Geek Writer Cat