Pigs Are Flying Through A Frosty Hell

Written by Meghan Daum | 14 April 2010

I vowed never, never but here I am. Being an almost total mercenary, I don't like to write unless I'm getting paid, but desperate times call for . . .

. . . blogging. So herein commences my blog. I won't say much yet because I can't think of anything to say, but I'll be racking my brain for the next day or so until something springs to mind. Actually here's something: if "commence" means to start something, why is graduation called "commencement?" I've never understood that. Also should the question mark have gone on the inside or the outside of that sentence. If I were quoting a person, it should go on the inside, obviously. But since I'm just setting the word off in quotes--"commencement"--maybe it goes on the outside. This is another reason I haven't blogged. I need editors. And copyeditors. They are really so much valuable in the world than writers. And I'll leave it at that.

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Alexio makes this comment

Monday, 12 April 2010

I agree... they really "are so much valuable". In fact, editors are really so much valuable, that I couldn't get long without them.
Natasha makes this comment

Monday, 12 April 2010

In my humble view, it's Flying Pigs that are so much valuable.
Erinn makes this comment

Thursday, 15 April 2010

I repeatedly ask that punctuation question myself. Love the blog and the new site!!
Amanda Vallo makes this comment

Thursday, 15 April 2010

hopefully we can pay you then in comments and compliments...

Thank you Meghan. keep blogging!

so happy to have been here on Saint Never's Day... : )
Wendy Brockett makes this comment

Monday, 19 April 2010

Just checking out your site to see when THE BOOK comes out and lo and behold, you've got a blog! I am a blog virgin, and you are my first. Well, better you than me- you are, at least, funny.... I enjoyed it. See you soon!
Suzanne S. Barnhill makes this comment

Saturday, 01 May 2010

In this case, the question mark goes outside the quotation marks because it's not part of the quoted text. I'm a copy editor, and I'm glad you understand how vital we are!

As for commencement, didn't your commencement speaker tell you it was the beginning of your real life? (You may even have believed him/her, not realizing that your real life begins around age 50.)
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Saturday, 03 September 2011

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