Bad grammar makes the Baby Jesus cry

[darkluna]

I am annoyed that the rules of civilized discourse prevent me from saying in my writing group, "Your story's bad and you should feel bad!" I resisted. I let this person know as nicely as possible that you cannot cram two sentences together using a comma as glue, and that writing "'It's cold today.' He said" is wrong in two places. To be honest, though, I expect an argument about that second one. This person's ignorance is deep as well as broad.

One of my stories is getting close to being fit for public consumption.

I'm going to make hot buttered rum for Xmas, which is probably more exciting to me than it should be.