So I’m taking this writing class called Masterful Sentences which is about … wait for it … sentence structure. Yeah, you didn’t see that coming.
Anyway, as part of this week’s assignment, I have a choice between “offering corrections to phrase and clauses wherever you see you can improve it” on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or diagramming several sentences from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
That’s sort of like the choice between a chocolate chip cookie and chewing on some crushed glass.
Personally, I don’t think Dickens needs “improving,” and I gave Joyce the old college try. Then I ran back to Dickens, asked for forgiveness, and was extremely proud of myself that I didn’t substitute “Dude, check it!” for “Mind!” in the second paragraph of the story.
Geek Girl Update
While Darcy slipped off the front page, you can see a few excerpts from her interview over at Geek Girl’s Guide.
Writing Wrongs 
I used to love diagramming sentences in school but I have a feeling they were much much easier than Joyce, haha.
Loved how you love Dickens and found no need for improvement.
signed, Oh, in the midst of reading (now in the third month of it, in fact) NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.