On the second Tuesday of each month, we choose one member’s story for review by the Life Writers community.
Tonight, we learned about a beloved aunt in Judy Fink’s story, “Aunt Polly.”
We discussed using only one space between sentences, compound adjectives, replacing would whenever possible, when to capitalize roles and business types, and more.
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Aunt Polly and Uncle Howard
In this video:
00:00:28 - Where to find story notes for this session
00:01:27 - One space, not two, between sentences
00:01:58 - When to capitalize and not capitalize mom, dad, grandfather, etc.
00:02:50 - Use italics for emphasis rather than quotation marks
00:03:10 - Hyphenating compound adjectives
00:03:51 - Eliminate vague words like "things"
00:04:06 - Try to replace "would" with the simple past tense
00:04:40 - Subject and object pronouns
00:06:15 - Check spellings of compound words in the dictionary
00:06:48 - Capitalization of professional, military, religious, and civil titles
00:07:35 - Typically, no need for "I remember," "I recall" in memoir
00:09:00 - Where to find the story notes for this month
00:09:25 - Judy Fink reads a paragraph of "Aunt Polly"
00:10:40 - What was the story about?
00:12:11 - What did the author do well?
00:16:19 - How can the author improve the piece?
00:23:58 - Final comments about Judy's story
00:26:20 - Next week's craft class on editing with Teresa Bruce
00:27:23 - Issue with posting a story with embedded photographs
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