This Sounds Weird

Read aloud, you say. Trying out something different to edit my upcoming book – a new lens. The software reads my story out loud to me, while I try to pick up on glitches I may have missed on previous edits. It’s okay when reading straight prose, but when reading dialogue, it sounds pretty weird – doesn’t get the gist of speech inflections 🙃

Then and Now

Apparently, my idea of getting dressed up has morphed since year 2007! Now, it’s all about my mom’s ancestral dress tartan: Stuart of Bute – Queen Mary’s residence. She used ‘u’ instead of ‘ew’ in her name, because her husband was French and the letter ‘w’ didn’t exist in French back in the day.