Round the Bend

[grandma_kate]

Yea me! I finished the gathering of data for our taxes this morning while the California Legislature finally voted to pass a Budget. It was only 106 days late. Sigh! Now the voters will have to decide which of the many measures on the ballot May 19 will pass or fail. Some of them are good ideas (no pay for elected officials until there is a

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[bookish327]

I agree with Gerry. Your chapters are very easy to read through. I've seen some by other authors that made me grind my teeth because of the problems I was having with them. I know that I was LITERALLY grinding my teeth (or at the very least, clenching my jaw) because my mouth hurt afterward. My dentist says that I have the type of wear on teeth to indicate that I grind my teeth, but I'm not normally aware of my jaw being sore. (Examples by other authors that got on my nerves: the author seemingly unable to decide whether he/she wanted to use past tense or present; serious, serious inconsistencies with canon that don't seem deliberately AU, just messy; a pattern of poor word-choice, so that I have tabs for dictionary.com and a thesaurus website open, in addition to the HP Lexicon, while I'm slogging through it.)

When you send your chapters to us, Kate, they are very easy to work with, and I don't remember to compliment you on this fact enough. Good job. :-)

[grandma_kate]

I still have all the various color (or colour) Post-it notes hanging out of my copy of Deathly Hallows so I can find the places to quote when my sharp-eyed readers have questions about my timeline or why Harry can see a house under Fidelius. If JKR says he sees a cottage with movement inside it, he sees a cottage with movement inside it.

I am such a novice fiction writer that I appreciate your patience and experience. If I could wave a magic wand you'd be highly paid for what you do so well.