What It Is

They are well matched in their skills. Sarah is a Harvard and Bennington graduate who teaches English to people like Eric who can’t spell worth “beenz.” In turn, Eric with a degree in Biotechnology helps Sarah navigate the ever technical world. When they hash out novels together it sounds like this:

“Eric, you can’t start with your character being such a loser; it’s depressing and nobody really cares what he’s talking about. Over here, this part’s great, but this paragraph needs work. Better word choice here…and that’s a dangling modifier.”

“But my character grows. What’s a dangling modifier? Okay, about your book, the first section is solid, I cried like five times–not that I cry, but after that you fly off into outer space. And a lock pick doesn’t look like a key, and you actually use two parts of the set at once. This key issue is a complicated problem, so let me think about a solution.”

“I’ll listen, but I’m writing it. Let’s get back to the problem of your story, which is supposed to be a romance. You’re not writing about science here, so why don’t you say the couple is well matched, not ‘symbiotic.’”

And so on and so forth…