Yummy writing
This post is a nice relaxing one—not too much grammar. It’s not yet time to post an example of outstanding writing, this being post number 168 (not 200), but I have an example of some pretty good writing to share with you. I confess that I’m a bit prejudiced because the writing is about several of my favorite non-writing topics: Local organic food, self-sufficiency, gardening, cooking, and (ahem) my wife. She has a friend, Rachel, who writes a local food blog called Rachel’s Table, which I suggest you go look at. Tell Rachel I sent you. Anyway, we had a few parsnips in our garden that had wintered over, and they came out a week or so ago as my wife prepped the beds for this season. My wife gave her one of the parsnips (and for effect, left it caked with dirt).
Enough preamble; here’s a picture of a parsnip plant:
Parsnip plant. Photo by Valerie George
I can’t resist saying something about the writing on the site. First, I found no actual grammatical mistakes or typos beyond a single missing comma and one tense I would have changed. Those are nit picks. The quality is far superior to a lot of Scientific American blog posts I’ve seen lately. Altogether, it’s a lighthearted, useful, and enjoyable read, and the photos are appropriate and useful.
One other point of interest: The third sentence of her post contains a nice example of hyperbole. Can you spot it?
Thank you for the accolades! I’m honored to be used as an example of pretty good writing, especially since I tend to use fragments for effect, like to start sentences with conjunctions, and overuse parentheses (a lot). I’ll be blogging about your blog later tonight. Oh, and I’m sure you know this already, but you are lucky to have someone as kind and generous as Valerie in your life. She’s amazing!
I enjoyed meeting your friend and visiting her blog. Thanks for sharing.