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comfortable within my skin

I am "comfortable within my skin" today and ready to get some projects started and finished.

In short, my muse wants to play.

My plan: Work on a variety of reviews and polish my technique for "feeling" what the author is writing. I may also practice the comma tips as ~A.J. Lyle~ illustrated in the #20 The Art of Criticism Project Newsletter article, Improving Your Editing Skills: A Pause for Punctuation Identification, Part I.

I am one of those writers who fluxuate between not enough and too much usage; because, I simply do not understand or remember all the rules.

I need to polish my punctuation skills as I'm hoping to work as a professional eventually helping others to edit their own punctuation.

It will help to be able to recite the rule which applies with the correction, as a way to remember that particular rule. Back to fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth grade composition English class. Yes, I know I had plenty of opportunity to learn the rules, but for some reason the rules just never stuck. I'm hoping my maturity as a writer will finally imbed the rules so that I can at least recognize when commas apply and when they don't.

Wadjee Doda! I have always been better at math than writing; but, I've always loved writing more than math.


I also need to add "Proof Reading" diligence to my writing skills--Thank-you 🌕 HuntersMoon for pointing out my typo. (which is now corrected)