![]() ![]() Commas obey my commands and periods cannot stop a sentence without my explicit say-so, in triplicate. I dot paragraphs with quotation marks like Casius Clay landing jabs. You need to know what a semicolon is? Or how to slash the end of that dangling participle? Or why the dash is an en instead of an em? I’m your woman. But if it’s an expensive thing, and you want it to be worth the money, and the armhole feels a little funny but you don’t know why and you’re not about to figure it out because you’ve already moved on to the next thing…well that would be my fault. If it’s an inexpensive sweater, likely it’s just too short or long or whatever. Or because when you put it on, it doesn’t feel quite right. Which doesn’t mean anything to you, until you go into the store and you don’t buy a sweater because it feels cheap and you can’t tell why, but it makes you wrinkle your nose. ![]() XTINE: 1) Technical designer with a specialty in sweaters. 2) Christine DeMaio-RiceĮd: Can’t those both be true? Anyway…Day job? XTINE: This is fine but I’m not going to tell you WHICH is true or false. Once with the truth, and once “creative writerly” (with a lie). By way of introduction, please answer each of the following biographic questions twice. This week, Tag Line Tuesday is happy to welcome Christine…well, there’s some last name issues depending on which of her books you’re looking at, but the links at the end should make that clear. ![]()
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