The Many Adventures of Rich Inman

Okay, I know that I said I would be trying to post every day again and I’ve failed so far, but things have been busier that I thought they would be. I’m trying to finish the first draft of my first novel, and after looking back at it and getting some feedback I’m pretty sure that I’m going to have to re-write the first roughly five chapters of the book. when I started it I didn’t really have a clear picture of who my main character was and now that I’m getting toward the last third of the book I realized he was pretty bland for the first part of it.

I’ve mentioned this before here, but I read in a book on editing that you should completely re-type your work before submitting it to a publisher. I think that I’m going to end up doing this only because I need to fix a lot of things in the beginning anyway. Is this something that you would do? Why or why not? I’m interested to see what everyone else thinks about it.

- Rich

Happy New Year! Now that the holiday season is over I’m going to be trying to post every day again. And my first post of 2010 is going to address a subject that is very important to me: Word usage!

For those of you out there who have spent any time on the internet, (which you have done merely by reading my blog) you have probably seen what is referred to as leet speak (short for elite speak). These terms, along with many that have been made popular because of text messaging are not proper English, and they’re annoying as hell. But as writers be must be aware of these new words and – dare I say – use them in proper context. For instance, the word fail is being used like this: Epic fail, soccer coach fail, ect… Obviously the correct way to say those phrases would be: Epic Failure, a soccer coach’s failure, ect…

I wonder if our language is being molested because of people who are too ignorant to use it correctly, or are they actually just too lazy? Either way, I hope that these ‘leet speak words stay out of literature (unless of course used in dialogue) and out of the dictionary as new words.

- Rich

Leet Speak Wiki