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Thank you, Donna.

Anyone have any experience with Whitesmoke or any of the other programs Donna mentioned?

That's an excellent question. Edited to add: I left the reply page open and went off to drive the cowboy truck and stock trailer. I came home, filled in my reply, but Lillian had already beat me to the punch. She is absolutely correct, as you'll see from my much wordier reply. First of all, "no...

You're welcome, Cory.

Please join in anywhere, anytime.

I tend to get too wordy and blah, blah in my posts just because I find good grammar intriguing and lack of good grammar extremely distracting. Feel free to start new topics or ask questions.

Scroll down in this forum. There is a thread totally devoted to the use of ellipses. Yes, there are times when using them are completely appropriate, but you'd be correct in not overusing them. The most common error is the setup, however. There should be spaces, if you get my drift . . . There's a v...

I've not ever heard of Grammarly. (But I don't get out much. )

I'm sure you're not driving your buddy group crazy. That's what they're there for!

Thanks, Jan.

Ditto to everything she said. I would have said the same.

(I have been checking and responding a little more faithfully, making a point of at least once a day or every other day or so. I will always get back to this forum, if not always in a timely fashion. Life is extremely busy.)

My opinion is that the " . . . " are fine. As is the omission of commas between the "addressee" and the rest of the text. So, help me Lord Jesus...Please...keep killing that old me. Ordinarily, in prose or dialogue, that would be "So, help me, Lord Jesus...Please...keep kill...

Donna,

I'm not an expert on poetry. (Or really anything else, really!)

Maybe Jan or Jim can weigh in on the specifics.

I'll have a look at your poem right now.

(Sorry for missing this. Birthday weekend, Valentines Day, ranch work, etc.)

I plan to go through all the lessons as a refresher and hopefully a kick start. But I don't know if I'll post. I sure hope you do. It's encouraging to me (and I hope to others) when readers post and comment, ask questions and answer a few questions, too. Otherwise, I feel like I'm whispering in a t...

Jo,

Here's a page that defines when to use quotation marks or italics.

MLA Style Guide for Italics and Quotation Marks

Remember, since we are writers, a book title is always italicized. No quotation marks.

Thanks, Jan, for filling in. Yes, I was in Los Cabos, soaking up the sun and getting a respite from -40 weather here at home. I have to admit I'd lost interest in this forum, as it seemed to be dying a slow death. I don't know whether it was me, the topics, the weather, or the price of tea in China,...

Ann, I'm just working through the current entries now. I'll send you an email to confirm it once I get to yours (not there yet). Thank you! With it down to the wire, I just wanted to make sure I didn't need to re-send or fix something before I go put my jammies on. (I hope I wasn't obnoxious or imp...

I got the "thank you, your entry was received" message.

Did everything arrive intact?

Submitted!

Blessings to everyone!

Deb Porter wrote:Lynn, as long as it's in a Word document, I'm fine with however it arrives.

I don't have Word.
I have Pages. (Mac)

ETA:
Never mind. I figured it out.