Good grief! That would dispose of a great deal of decent literature.
Why do you have to be such a smart alec, Sam? Mrs Clemens.
"That's a rather black poem, Oscar. Why don't you just write some more of those
funny plays?" Mrs Wilde.
"You really should give up the drink, Edgar." Mrs Poe.
"It's very hard to read dear and I just don't like all the smutty bits." Mrs
Joyce.
"It's just horrible dear, how could you?" Mrs Wollstonecraft
Why don't you ever write any happy poems, dear." Mrs Fildes
Andrew Fildes
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On 15/12/2010, at 5:10 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
> Then there's the "Mother's Reading" rule.
>
> Whenever you write something, re-read it, pretending to be your mom. Will she
> approve of what you've just written? Then edit. :-)
>
> I'm not always successful at it, but it works wonders when I do apply it.
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