#i don't want to figure out how to reword the entire paragraph

[thistaleisabloodyone]

I don't want to edit the TVtropes page, but someone said "Rooks of any lineage can have Vallaslin, not just the elves", but that's wrong? Not every facial tattoo is a vallaslin - we've had facial tattoos since game one. Vallaslin are specific designs

[cheshire-castle-library]

Alice in wonderland: 'If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.'

Agreed, we don't know how to live.

We're all unique snowflakes, but I think divorce & drugs & alcohol exists so we can try to calm down from all the anger & rage we feel when we can't get what we want, or the way we want to be treated or remembered.

Essentially if anger is as murder, Hell is basic entry level for everyone—so if GOD sent HIS SON to die on the cross in our place to avoid this Hell & lead us thru life by HIS HOLY SPIRIT; & HE says there is only 1-way forward & JESUS is the way/truth/life, that no one comes to the FATHER except thru JESUS. [John 14:6]

Why in the world would we ever avoid HIS easy yoke? Why wouldn't we ask HIM in to show us the way?

We clearly don't have life/truth/way to GOD, unless we accept JESUS, life/death begins forever after we're ejected from earth.

I wonder if you were to die in your sleep suddenly: Are you ready to be drop-kicked into eternity?

I'm.... deeply confused what I reblogged that earned me this??

I don't think using the words of a suspected/known pedo is going to add to your morality/evangelistic argument. I love Alice in Wonderland too, but it's not a good way to avoid buckshot in your argument from people who don't want to hear it

I don't entirely disagree - reading between the lines and rhetoric, I think your argument is about free choice. And I agree, all humans have free will - that's the whole thing about Lucifer being god's right hand and basically going to rule in hell because he stole free choice which the angels didn't have. (Also, neat thing: if free choice/will is what separates us from the angels, and the angels were perfect beings, it meant that free will is what makes us imperfect beings. Idk what you wanna do with that, but I just think its neat)

I don't think anger is murder. There are good reasons to be angry and ways to be angry that don't take someone's life, and don't take away someone else's free will. But this paragraph... the logic doesn't really follow easily. You may want to rethink it and reword it, because I'm not really sure what you're punching at there.

Not sure why you think I don't believe in God, I don't really talk about my faith in more than obliques and what I tag posts. But I was made this way, and I'm not one who accepts a yoke without being beaten down. That's the way God made me, and it's gotten me pretty far. I also don't think God makes mistakes when he makes things/people, so I'm the way I'm supposed to be. Accepting myself for who I am, while accepting the things I can learn to be better about is kind of the best way I can honor our creator/maker/the divine/etc.

Are you threatening me?? It really sounds like you want something bad to happen to me in the night ^^; But in all honesty, yeah. I'm okay with dying, and where I'll land in whatever afterlife there may be. I don't pretend to know what is waiting in the next life, but I'll accept it whatever it may be. I've been true to myself and I came to terms with death a long time ago. What should I be afraid of if I have faith and I'm comfortable with the way I've lived? I know I've left more good than i've left bad in the world, and that's enough for me.

Also, if this is what you are doing for Lent, you might need to consider what lent is about. I'm ready to say no to little evils, I've done it before, and I do believe that participating in Lent has in many ways trained me for that. I think you should spend some time soul searching and decide some things for yourself.

I for one am not going to explain my faith on the internet. I'm not going to judge other peoples' faiths either. We are imperfect beings, and therefore we have no right to judge. I'm also not going to internalize or change based off of an unsolicited anon. I don't think anyone should.

I hope you find peace, and you figure out what about me being myself in my own little space in this virtual community scared/hurt/confused you so much to send this. And if this is honestly what you feel is right, then thank you for spending the time to do it. It's a hard world to make a stand in right now. But please rest easy knowing that I don't need saving, I have faith in things greater than. I recognize that I am small in the grand machine, and I'm grateful for this reminding me of that - it's so easy sometimes to get caught up in the things that scare us and forget that there's larger mechanization that have been going long before we were born, and will continue to go long after we die.

Have peace, Anon.

[k--havok]

Oh my gosh it is so much fun to hear when people have strong and interesting opinions about a topic I originally found quite mild! I love it!

I do want to say I also read critically! I actually was talking with someone the other week how I often will finish a book series or book I really enjoyed and will immediately reread it after closing it so I can go back and figure out everything I loved about it and break down the plot and craft that had me in such a chokehold.

And I tend to start getting detailed too. Before I had a kindle and could highlight things I would dog-ear and write in some of my books (yes yes I know I am FULL of controversy here too lol!) I would reread the same sentences, scenes, chapters, all of it over and over and over again to break down what I loved about these things so much. (and I do mean OBSESS over it.

And I still HATE line editing. Specifically.

Editing software, is like everything else, a tool. Like spellcheck, which is now baked into pretty much everything unless you turn it off (and I have met writers against using spellcheck!) or the thesaurus and dictionary. Or software that tackles grammar rules as, let's be real, grammar is HARD even for native english speakers. And, if we talk about publishing, software that also auto-formats your manuscript for either querying purposes or self-pub purposes.

I always find it interesting where people draw the line in terms of what tools they are comfortable with. And, like you said, sometimes its based on where our enjoyment comes from. I don't despise editing as much as I use to. I used to never reread or edit any of my writing, not even to catch mistakes, because I was so insecure in it.

I don't mind doing full rewrites. I also don't mind content editing; going back and adding or taking away paragraphs, rephrasing entire scenes, rearranging chapters, etc. I just hate line editing; going through and correcting grammar, rewording sentences slightly even if the meaning and what I am trying to convey stays the same, and doing those minor edits. Its dull to me.

Sure they add up over time. And I am always happy once I have a finished product I like. But I also only have so much time, motivation, and energy in one day. For me, using editing software to find weirdly worded sentences, passive voice, run-on sentences, and bad grammar saves me a LOT of time. Just as I would rather use a thesaurus to find a specific word rather than just sit and think about it forever. Or use spellcheck to fix spelling mistakes rather than grab a dictionary, find the word, and respell it.

I also find it interesting that this is the second or third time I've heard of editing software burying your own writing voice. Just as you can click "ignore" when spellcheck comes up to tell you a fantasy-esque name is spelled wrong... you can ignore or reword suggestions given to you as well. Sometimes I want a sentence to be passive. Sometimes "said softly" is what I mean and the vibe I am trying to convey, not "whispers" or "murmurs." You can always ignore suggestions you do not like, or take them and reword them to better match your own writing style and flow. I very rarely go with the exact sentence offered to me; I usually go back and tweak it a little bit.

The software is an algorithm and is doing what is programmed to do. But its the human behind the software, making those decisions, that ultimately matters and is writing the story. You have the choice in the matter. I find it interesting that when I say I like to use editing software, the knee-jerk reaction is that I reword every sentence it says I need to with no thought or input. Not at all! Just as I ignore spellcheck when it says my own damn last name is spelled wrong, I ignore suggestions I don't like just as often. I love starting sentences with -ing verbs. Adverbs can be great. I use exclamations!!! Often!!! and slang? oh lordy lordy lordy my normal day is made up of 80% slang and it ends up in my writing all the time. (but sometimes I do need to edit it out. I'm from the southern US and as it turns out sometimes it makes no sense for certain characters to use the same slang; especially if they're from Northern US states or not in our world at all).

I also want to say that those people who made fun of your English? Assholes! What the genuine fuck. God I hate people LMAO sorry sorry I just canNOT stand people like that. Everyone has to start somewhere. I barely know fucking english as my grammar SUCKS so the fact there are people who know more than 1 language is amazing to me. Blows my mind. Genuinely.

I do find it interesting how writing anxiety shows up differently for everyone! In the technical non-fiction writing world, I always fret if I sound too professional or too personal. It's hard to balance when you're not sure (it also doesn't help that in the medical field, what you write can be a legal document and put in medical records haha). In creative writing, my insecurities are much different and usually borne from grammar mistakes or conveying what I am trying to describe as sometimes? it's absolute gibberish that even my loved ones who know me and my brain well cannot comprehend.

There are so many different types and sides to editing work. And, at the end of the day, editing IS writing. Even if we differ editing from putting words on a blank page, it is still writing, and different people get different amounts of enjoyment from it. Everyone is different, everyone's workflow is different, and I think its a beautiful thing. If everyone worked and wrote the same way, reading and writing would both be quite boring.

So, I actually am curious about this.

I use quite a few different programs for editing my work, specifically I prefer using ProWritingAid but have also used Grammerly in the past too before I wanted something with more features and specialized.

Both ProWritingAid, Grammerly, and other editing software often have features that can reword sentences for you for numerous reasons, such as getting rid of a "passive voice," for clarity, or just to make it sound better.

I'm not entirely sure what sort of program is running to do this. Is it AI based? Perhaps. Or maybe an algorithm of some kind? I am not sure. I know very little about software.

Personally, I find it really helpful and it speeds up the line editing, which I hate doing. Content editing and rewriting? Fine. LINE EDITING? Ugh.

But what is everyone else's opinion on this?