I'm Just Saying - Colloquialisms - GWWE - Gather Writing Essentials

Back in the good ole days,

How often I have said that

But then I get to thinking

They thought the world was flat

Nowadays we're so in touch

Don't even know folks we're friends with

Well, we know em but never met em

Who’d a thought we'd have that gift

Now and then I get a phone call

Not knowing who's on the other end

Somebody says Hi to me

I listen as they tell me I'm their friend

I hear dialects from all over,

How ya doin, y’all

I say to myself, "self"

This ole world is getting small

So sitting writing on this gadget

Jotting down my thoughts, I wonder

Who's going to read them anyway

Could be someone from down under

My mother always told me

That the world is always growing

Always listen to your mother

They have a way of knowing

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Colloquialisms; every writer is told to “stay away” from them. Yet some of the most incredible novels ever written have a lot of colloquial writing in them. From the venerable Mark Twain to the more recent Steven King this dreaded language style inhabits tales that seem to crank you in and pull you along in so many ways. I am interested this week in your own “colloquial” styles and what kind of language or sayings you grew up with. What do you have to overcome to write in an “accepted” style? What plagues you in your personal writings?

Please respond by Wednesday April the 6^th, use GWWE in the title and tag it with Colloquial.

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