Hi Ryk .I love your series, but I have to take issue with your grammar! Sorry!
I'm a pedantic old git,i'm English and first started reading sci.fi. in the late fifties with Edgar Rice Burroughs.
As I said I love your Frontier saga.but.... discrete ,means separate NOT. Quietly ..that would be DISCREET!.
If blood comes out of a wound quickly , you cannot say,"blood spurt from his arm"! It should be "SPURTED".
Similarly,the sun SHONE not shined.
Please update your proof reader ! Semo. Fo us yam race.
Some of us may care.
Frank .
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Ahh, the Queens English....
I have been reading a lot of William Clark Russell lately, makes me feel a bit better about the current state of the language.
Gary.thanks for that, mainlined on Hornblower as well,will read.
Language is an art, not a science. No matter what I do, there will always be someone that thinks it is incorrect. And no matter how many times things get proofread, there will be errors. That's just life. Things created by humans will never be perfect. If perfection is what you require, you need to read something else.
There are relatively few mistakes in your work Ryk, and for the quantity you put out you do a every good job of limiting the mistakes. sometimes a cluster of mistakes like referencing the Falcon when we are looking at an Eagle (which to be fair is an easy mistake when speed writing) can throw me for a few second, but on the whole reading your books is very easy.
I have a friend who will remain nameless who went to college to study literature to help with his writing. He lately showed me something he had worked on, on and off for 2 months and I (who studied accounting) had to edit almost every second sentence because of obviously bad grammar, paceing issues, use of multiple tenses in a single sentence/paragraph, incorrect use of gender references, story points that were impossible, story points that don't make sense from the point of view of the stories world to make it readable... took me hours. That same friend took months to read something I had wrote in hours before he could tell me that "it was good, but there were some spelling mistakes in it"... My friend is a lazy piece of work.
Moral of the story - Ryk is doing damn fine work! Damn fine! Keep it up!
I agree ,all your stories are page turners Ryk. And have and do make me late for work. But ,please, you cannot have Casimir's aide casting DISPERSIONS! ASPERSIONS ,. YES .
AS I said , I'm a pedantic old git. And this is the first authors forum I have ever written to . I will keep on reading
Thank you for bothering to reply.
