Woah. Heavy stuff duuuude...
Hopefully gonna be happily married next year. She's a phD candidate (with a thesis on compartive literature in cyberpunk), was the youngest woman ever published in this country, ran the first LGBTQ publisher in this country (potentially it was the only, i'm not sure), her publication list of academia, poetry & visual poetry now is like 8 pages long, and she's the most wonderful woman I have been so blessed to meet.
So maybe I was bit more edgy at the time. My ex remarried to fatboy biker man 20 years her senior, my kids love him, they're a very simple family. Bought the kids an Xbox on my advice (and money lol but that's irrelevant) / I got a Ps4 Pro. Gotta get a second controller they love Minecraft way too much.
Pause / break / pause.
I don't give a **** about your marriage duuuuuuuuuuuuude. Or your pwersonal life. What I do give a **** is a bout
1) someone asks for writing advice
2) person a [moi] recommends to read a book, in our case Elements of Style
3) said someone [Jon'c] blows into a tirade about how it sucks and links to some random linguist professing his word the final say in the matter
4) person a says wtf duuude. especially considering person a [moi] is convinced that the someone hasn't even ever
read it.
5) person a gets the BANHAMMER
I don't pray to The Elements of Style, or to any other book. Although I do believe in God for a few years now, I am not convinced following any dogma, or advising somebody against the acquisition of knowledge is very wise. Duuude.
Also, I've many other books about writing. The latest one I want to read is
Save the Cat!, it's about screenwriting. Chris Avellone recommended it to me, and I value his opinion.
(duuuuuuuuuude)