Hello and happy Friday!!!

Happy to make it to this day to write to you; I just love writing in mostly all its forms. I have signed up to take editing and grammar classes in July at Cleveland State University; both are one day classes and I’m looking forward to them. I can always use a brush up. While writing I sometimes come across a piece in my work whose idea I need to get across perfectly but can’t find the words to convey what I mean because my vocabulary isn’t that large or my understanding of certain words and how to use them isn’t that great, so taking a grammar class at anytime is a plus for me.

And editing, it’s extremely hard for me to self-edit which is the case for most writers I believe. I am so bad at self-editing my work, I take it to the extreme by getting rid of things that are useful and possible crucial to the story because I’m afraid of being too wordy or using three words when one could do or paragraphs that have more than eight sentences, I cut most everything which is not the way to edit. So by taking a course on editing (and grammar) every chance I get, I can brush up on what I know and learn what I don’t so that when I approach the editing process it will be with less trepidation.

And its never too late to learn something new, a better way to do something especially when it comes to writing because for me; I always want to improve so that my writing is so seamless to the reader he is joyfully amazed at the story as a whole and only by knowing what I’m doing grammatically or learn what to keep in or take out can I leave my readers with that great experience.

Write well.

If you have any comments or suggestions I have a new e-mail address at: mathewsla@hotmail.com

Until next time, God willing.