Grammar or no grammar? Aiming for invisibility

WHAT’S THE USE OF GRAMMAR then?

Invisibility.
«The goal of your grammar usage in your novel is simple: Aim for invisibility. If your reader notices your usage, or rather, your incorrect usage, of grammar, punctuation, or other typos in your text, you’re going to draw them out of your story and onto the physical page. They’ll remember that they’re reading, not skiing in Aspen or investigating the black market in human organs with the characters you’ve created. If you do not know the general rules of grammar, you should look them up. Sooner rather than later. Like now. Consider purchasing a book such as the short, influential text The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.»

Sarah Domet (90 days to your novel)

I personally, would recommend The good grammar book. It is the quite simple and non nonsense kind of book and the explanations make sense with what’s spoken which is always helpful.

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN?

Yes… Grammar is invisible but a lot of authors nag on it.

Let’s think. How many books do you read annually? Maybe not a lot (I myself don’t read much since Play books has this pretty feature of reading aloud and now I can sew or do stuff while listening[1]… ). Maybe you read a lot of books. Both ways are ok. Sometimes we do not get anything out of a book but we do from the videogame, movie, comic and sometimes; it is all related to cataracts, glaucoma or degenerative stuff happening in both eyes or one… Or we just have to get out time from nowhere.

Anyways, if you’re here, you read. That or you just have had a close encounter of the worst kind with nonsense (I nonsense, I exist). So you read [obv would my younger cousins say]. Hencefore, you notice with just a glance any time I misspell gramar. Don’t you?

… Does it upset you? Right. It makes you notice you’re holding a smartphone or some 500 pages big thing, perfect to use in case of assault, instead of luscious padded green moss and the fresh and greasy smell of pine sap surrounded by whispering green needles…the steel sparkling to the sun like the river about to cut the monster.

GRAMMAR OR NO GRAMMAR?

Maybe a dictionary in the short term and a bit of conjunction junction is my function.
After all, you gotta start somewhere. And that includes having fun. Pasto kalo.

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[1] I never said I was a hardworking kind of person. If something, I’m lazy.