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Now that I am using the paid version of Grammarly, just as an experiment, I get a "report card" each week. Here are the results for the last seven days:
I am more productive than 96% of other users.
I am more accurate than 89% yada, yada.
I use more unique words than 90%, etc. (I bet I know what a lot of those words are).
What all that tells me is that maybe I don't need Grammarly. I'll give it another week, but I'm leaning strongly toward canceling. I figure I've managed to post 40-some-odd stories here before I even heard of it, so I may go back to self-editing. I'm not trying to write the great American novel, or even the so-so American novel, just some dirty stories.
Found another interesting comment from C. Robert Cargill on Bluesky this morning. I want to make a poster of this one and hang it over my writing desk.
"Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough. You'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes you have to see the words on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The right words often only come after the wrong words."
Found on Robert Cargill's thread on Bluesky
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing
Thanks to everyone (and there was a heck of a lot of you) who gave me the answer to this mystery. It showed up as a Random story on the homepage.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reading.
Since I returned to SOL after being gone for over a decade, I've been watching my statistics once a week or so, just a touch of writer ego, I guess.
This week, I noticed something strange. One of my stories that I posted 18(!) years ago, had the most views last week, by far, four times as many as any others. It's not even one of my most popular, 13th or something.
What happened? Not complaining, just curious.
BTW, the story is "Pete, Repeat, and Snookie"
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