I just don't understand

Wow! You have a future as a bestselling author, like Lee Child. I sure hope you write more. I want to read it!

You kidding? My grammar is horrible.

Good grammar doesn't make a good writer. Ever read Raymond Chandler or James Joyce? Their books are classics now. The poet e.e. cummings often skipped using caps. Didn't you read "Jabberwocky" *** (by Lewis Carroll, the Alice in Wonderland guy) once upon a time?

You have a special skill, a special talent. Seems like stream of consciousness mostly. In fact, may I borrow it as my next assignment to give to my writers' group? I'll ask them to continue on for another 1,000 words or so. Or maybe I'll make it into a round-robin thing to pass around the table and all fifteen-twenty writers add a sentence or two or three.

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`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Do what you want, I don't care. I find Lewis Carrolls works to be irritating.

Oh, you aren't like him at all. I just wanted to point out how good grammar isn't required for someone to become a famous writer.

Which authors have you liked?

Patrick Rothfuss

I had to look him up (have been retired from Libraryland for two years now, so am not up on new authors). He sounds really good: "A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard."

Thanks. You've just blessed me with a new author!

Have you read Pier Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series?

I just checked my library's online catalog. The Rothfuss book is out, so will reserve it.

Everyday wisdom by dr frank crane is interesting as well, if you can find it.