Confused

As a writer of Christian fiction, occasionally I am invited to speak on the subject. As part of my presentation I include my testimony, how I became a Christian. After all, if a gal is going to write Christian books, she should provide her credentials, right? Wouldn't you want to know that? I recently explained this to an inviter from a local church, and she was perplexed and asked that I just speak on myself and my writing for fear of confusing some of the people. Then I was confused. If this was a Christian-type church, what was the fear?


This is my submission to www.velvetverbosity.com Their challenge this week is to write 100 words...no more, no less...on the word "credentials." This happened to me just recently. The story is longer, this submission is not.

Errors

Okay...pet peeve time. I hope this is not incredibly insensitive of me, and I don’t know why it bothers me, but spelling, grammar, and punctuation flubs irritate the stew out of me! I’m reading along and all of a sudden I’ll read a sentence that goes something like this: “We took our jacket’s to the beach just in case the weather is chilly.” What’s wrong with this sentence? Well, the plural of jacket is “jackets.” If you want to write about a button on a jacket (showing that the button belongs to the jacket) you use “jacket’s.” “We took our jackets to the beach, and my jacket’s buttons all fell off.” These kinds of errors seem to be cropping up more and more.. I’m not sure why that is, and I certainly don’t mean to lead you to believe that I am perfect at all this stuff. (In fact, you may find some errors in this very blog!) I’m just saying that it bothers me.

Kidz, pleeze get thiss stuff strate wile you’re (not your)still in skool so that you won’t (not want) drive fokes like me krazy!