Rite it properly

 

Like most couples, I guess we too have the odd contretemps. Whilst other people may have disagreements, arguments or even outright rows; we prefer our discussions to be just contretemps. It adds a certain je ne sais quoi to our minor loss of focus.

Furthermore, in order to easily resolve our differences of opinions, and to save going over old ground and repeat previously covered and debated subjects, I have suggested that all such contretemps should be recorded in writing, dated and conclusions and agreements recorded for future reference. My wife reluctantly agreed to my brilliant plan.

Now, whenever a difference of opinion occurs, I refer first to previously written records to check the subject has not already been covered and resolved, and then, if not, we start a new discussion in writing. 

I put forwards my thoughts; and so does she.

It irritates me no end when she misspells certain words, and has all the wrong punctuations. She does not know when to use the question mark (?) and the exclamation mark (!) and when to use the semi-colon (;) and how to use brackets (((  )))    

How can one make sense of what she is supposed to be upset about if it is all misspelled and the punctuation is all wrong? I've explained it many times to no avail. It gets to the point that the discussion centres on grammar and punctuation rather than on the subject we're supposed to be disagreeing about.

I think she's doing it deliberately to deflect the argument from the real thing and she always wins by default.

Writing Course

Hello dear friends,

You'll be interested to know that I have just started a correspondence course in writing.  By the end of the course I'll be able to write novels and books that everyone will want to read and I'll be as famous as other writers.

As part of the lessons they give us a word which we have to use to write a short story. The word for this week is "fascinated." This is what I wrote.

"Being fascinated is quite an experience. I remember years ago I was fascinated by a young beautiful blonde nurse. She did it with a needle in my arm. 

Have you ever been fascinated by anyone?

Being fascinated can sometimes have side effects, like a sore arm or even worse if you get a reaction to the fascination. 

Did you get a reaction when you were fascinated?"

I've sent my short story to the correspondence course people I wonder what they'll say about it. 

The word for the next lesson is "anticipated". They haven't told us what it means yet. I'm looking forwards to finding out next week.

Have you ever been anticipated?

I wonder if it is different to being fascinated. The correspondence people told us not to look it up in the dictionary because it would spoil the surprise of the next lesson.

They said if I complete the course I'll be a successful writer of world renown. 

I wonder what "renown" means.

CLIQUEZ ICI