27th Dimension Publishing

"Alright" drives me crazy, personally (unless it's used in dialogue, but even then I usually don't see the point; "Aight," or "aright," I get, but "alright" and "all right" sound exactly the same). Just like "alot."

As for this "editor"...this screams of someone who will make your prose leaden and generic.

Maybe it's also a regional thing? I'd have said 'alright' is fairly standard UK English; it's been in use in print since 1893.

It generally gets loudly sniffed at by editors.

I love "alright". "All right" reads clunky to me, especially in dialogue.

That said, I fully expect to be taken to task for it when my work hits an editor's desk.

nkkingston said:

Maybe it's also a regional thing? I'd have said 'alright' is fairly standard UK English; it's been in use in print since 1893.

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As far as I'm concerned, it's exactly as appropriate for formal use in business letters as 'ain't'. Not every real word is appropriate for formal use.

I'm not sure where to post this, but Beware 27th Dimension
they "bought" and sold my book.... full of Typos and they never paid me
The owner's name is Dan Schlueter He's in MD and also runs an erotic (Porn) site, but won't reveal the name.

Merge coming Occurred.

Maybe needless to say, this publisher disappeared sometimes in 2012. I was working with them first as an author, and then for a short time as an editor, and then, because of the horrible submissions, as only an author again.

Chances are I wrote the rejection/correction letter in question, because the submission was horrible. I may not have, but it sounds a bit like my wording.

Adverbs _radically_ weaken the text of any story, and should be used only _rarely_. Classic literature uses loads of them, but this does not change their weakening ability.

"Dialogue tags, or said-bookisms, are even more ridiculous, and can be replaced with better descriptive writing," he breathed (choked/coughed/fumbled).

Progressive verbs and gerunds are far overused in writing as well.

As an editor, I reject stories all the time that include one or more of these weak forms of writing.