BLURB: How to wear a spotless crown like royalty?

In How to wear a spotless crown like royalty?, I challenge the reader to take the difficult road of a necessary introspection as I once took the same path. Because I went through difficult times which lasted years by sequences, I had to do whatever was in my power to heal definitely . Not thinking that the sad melody that was the soundtrack of my life was maybe gone but knowing by feeling its depart once and for all as I bid my farewell.

Funny, all the words LOOK like English…

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Matthew
Matthew
4 years ago

I looked inside the book and got to these sentences before I was forced to turn back.

What can I tell you that you don’t already know with my twenty seven years of existence? Maybe nothing, however I can try to contribute a little by putting on paper what I am witnessing and what I sent through as a young woman born in the 20th century and living in the 21th who hold two citizenships from different continents.

El cochinote
4 years ago
Reply to  Matthew

Meanwhile, two paragraphs later:

(…)I am a French speaker so English is not my first language. I have the choice to write in French (as I usually do) but since I do pretty well (not perfectly) in the language of Shakespeare, I decided to challenge myself.

This make me feel bad because I’ve been in her place with the same results.

Matthew
Matthew
4 years ago
Reply to  El cochinote

If someone were to ask me for any advice on writing, it’d be to write in your native tongue unless you’ve been speaking the other language fluently for several years. Even then, have a native speaker read and verify that your work sounds normal.

Also, modern English is hardly still the language of Shakespeare.

El cochinote
4 years ago
Reply to  Matthew

I could not agree more with you.

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
4 years ago

Run – do not walk – away from this anguished whine, drenched in self pity. Woe is her.