Just remember that when the next person, or animal, speaks, start a new paragraph. Indentation for a new paragraph is optional now, but for school essays, indentation might be required. Follow the teacher’s directions or ask.
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The following is Lesson One for Robert E Dunn's Writing Space on Quora. Click on Download File and listen. Joining Quora is free. Look for my writing space on the right side of the profile: https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-E-Dunn The annual subscription fee to my space is very, very modest, considering the amount of help you will receive in writing, editing, and self-publishing. Submit writing samples or ask questions. Check out the credentials of the moderator and the contributors. 
A reading of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope” is the thing with feathers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wy1DNzVlY “You asked, and now I will answer. To date, monsieur, my stories have contained no foul language. Such has come out of the mouths of characters, not from the omniscient narrator. Realism has certain demands, M. Chopin. Yet, the Catholic Writers Guild has never given me their Seal of Approval. The Guild cannot distinguish the difference just elucidated. Membership, over. The rebirth of Catholic arts, their motto, will issue elsewhere. Nor was the secular publishing world a friend to me, a fairly competent fiction writer of the male sort, of a rather traditional bent like you, and not into trash and trends. It’s been fun. Maybe someday I’ll see you on Quora. Here are the directions.” https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-E-Dunn Chopin by a Russian monk whose religious name is Abel and birth name is Paul de Senneville
On the benefits of learning Latin - University of Kentucky https://mcl.as.uky.edu/benefits-latin Protestant view https://davenantinstitute.org/benefits-learning-latin/ Catholic view https://lourdesclassical.org/why-latin/ In the third entry, we hear from Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) on the importance of Latin. She was a poet and the author of detective fiction from England, as well as a student of classical and modern languages who refused to call herself a feminist, instead believing in practicing women’s rights more than in preaching them. Sounds like my mother. Wikipedia quotes Sayers: “Indeed, it is my experience that both men and women are fundamentally human, and that there is very little mystery about either sex, except the exasperating mysteriousness of human beings in general...If you wish to preserve a free democracy, you must base it—not on classes and categories, for this will land you in the totalitarian State, where no one may act or think except as the member of a category. You must base it upon the individual Tom, Dick, and Harry, on the individual Jack and Jill—in fact, upon you and me.” Sounds like me. Fact is that shortly after her death in 1957, Latin instruction in schools was scaled back everywhere, as demonstrated by my high school. My cousin was required to take four years of Latin and graduated in 1957. I graduated in 1970 and was required to take two years. Not long after that, the Latin imperative was dropped altogether in favor of modern languages. Sayers was an Anglo Catholic friend of C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton. The following essay, published on January 1, 1940, reveals how prescient she was.  This is the only authenticated photo of Dickinson 1846/7, born 1830 and died 1886 in the same place. So feminine was she, unlike many women today, who either dress too scantily or dress like men, or get tattoos like men, or want to replace men. Still, a reading tutor who is not guiding a student to the knowledge that life is bewildering is failing. -RED
I set up a brand new Quora space for anyone who wants advice on writing and self-publishing. It is called Robert E Dunn’s Writing Space.
Quora is a global online platform for asking questions and getting answers. Other Quora member writers who are interested in working with me may join the new space as contributors. If there are any questions, contact me via the new space, which was set up by invitation from Quora. For those seeking advice about writing and/or self-publishing, there is a modest fee for membership in my space. I worked with five editors: one editor-turned-coach, two professionals, and two who were self-employed with Upwork. They edited the short stories and the novel, Pretty City Murder, and taught me how to write fiction and publish my own work. Many students have received my help in reading, writing, and math, and one parent has a publishing facility. Also, my input has appeared on Quora in the fields of writing and middle school/high school math. https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-E-Dunn What techniques improved your writing skills significantly?
Answered by Robert Zenhausern, Quora, on October 29, 2022, in the section titled, “Skilled English Writing”.
Take a 200-word summary and rewrite it in 100 words. “Some animal cried out in the night outside.” Realism. Listen all the way to the end.
Meeting Jeeves, the undertaker, I mean, valet, for the first time. My brother made me drink a raw egg one time, but he wasn’t Jeeves. I share the name of the boy scout who, with the help of P. G. Wodehouse, tries to betray the main man. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. I was out walking last night and noticed a twinkling star.  courtesy of mocomi.com
The same turbulence also causes stars to appear to change colors rapidly. Refraction is the shift of light when it passes through a medium leading to bending. Reflection is the bouncing back of light when it strikes a medium, such as Sun to Moon to Earth. These guys talk about what confronted me as a writer. Interviewer and interviewee, both Catholic, discuss the challenge of writing and the more difficult challenge of getting published. Publishing is on empty today. I could show you junk poetry and short stories that win prizes from a variety of digital publishers. I encouraged an aspiring black woman to write and submit her work because she is what publishers want, better yet if you are Latinx, LGBTQ++++, or a trans non-binary TikTok star influencer. Weekly jargon changes make it impossible to be politically correct one hundred percent of the time. There might be a young Catholic entrepreneur out there who can create a new contra publishing house for genre writing and literary writing that is both intellectual and profitable.
During tutoring today I learned something about the exclamation point. I knew that it should be used sparingly, but I did not know the following: do not use to indicate emphasis, irony, or humor. Okay, to make it simple, use the exclamation point with imperative statements only. “Move it!” Imperative derives from imperial. Think of an English king ordering you off your arse and on your orse.
Here is a link to a significant human rights organization reporting on China:
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/news In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. John McCrae 1915 Mary Magdalen's Blushe
The signs of shame that stain my blushing face Rise from the feeling of my raving fits, Whose joy annoy, whose guerdon is disgrace, Whose solace flies, whose sorrow never flits; Bad seed I sow'd, worse seed is now my gain, Soon-dying mirth begat long-living pain. Now pleasure ebbs, revenge begins to flow; One day doth work the wrath that many wrought; Remorse doth teach my guilty thoughts to know How cheap I sold that Christ so dearly bought: Faults long unfelt doth conscience now bewray, Which cares must cure and tears must wash away. All ghostly dints that grace at me did dart, Like stubborn rock I forced to recoil; To other flights an aim I made my heart Whose wounds, then welcome, now have wrought my foil. Woe worth the bow, woe worth the archer's might, That draw such arrows to the mark so right! To pull them out, to leave them in is death, One to this world, one to the world to come; Wounds may I wear and draw a donbtfnl breath, But then my wounds will work a dreadful doom; And for a world whose pleasures pass away, I lose a world whose joys are past decay. O sense! O soul! O hap! hoped bliss! Yon woo, you win, you draw, you drive me back; Your cross encount'ring like their combat is. That never end but with some deadly wrack; When sense doth win, the soul doth lose the field, And present haps make future hopes to yield. O heaven! lament, sense robbeth thee of saints, Lament, souls! sense spoileth you of grace; Yet sense doth scarce deserve these hard complaints, Love is the chief, sense but the entering place; Yet grant I must, sense is not free from sin, For thief he is that thief admitteth in. Robert Southwell, SJ “Before his death, he prayed publicly for the Queen and made a very edifying speech to the assembled crowd. He struggled to make the sign of the Cross while he was hanging, and before he was cut down, Lord Mountjoy and some other onlookers tugged at his legs so that he would die before the rest of the brutality could happen. It was his lifeless body that was disemboweled and quartered. When his severed head was held up to the crowd, nobody dared shout the customary epithet, ‘Traitor!’” https://catholicism.org/saint-robert-southwell-a-brief-life.html https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalen%27s_Blushe (no changes made) Below is a picture that means much to me, and the artist does not know it. Signed by Jamie Chreszczyk and titled Still Life, it was in the discard bin at Academy of Art University for another artist to pick up and paint over. Failure? No. There is no external light source on the small painting; Jamie achieved that in the painting.  I placed the crucifix, which is damaged, on top. The two lie on a dresser, and a lamp produces the shadow. Together, painting and crucifix represent failure. I have failed many times. The painting is real. The new pagan culture surrounding us is real, too. We have entered dark times. I will remain loyal to an America free of socialism, barbarism, and radicalism, and I will stay with the True Church, not the counterfeit one led by Francis. I have no superior, hooray, so I can say what I want and answer to no one, except Our Lord, and there has never been any other role model. I am extremely fortunate to have had parents who modeled His love. Without them, how could I have come to know Him? Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England Weigh In Following is a funeral oration by Pericles (495BC to 429), who grew up among artists and philosophers. He speaks over the brave dead, and his speech is a recommendation to us to defend what we believe in with our lives. Once more, I am amazed how Catholic the ancient Greeks were. After listening to his oration, look at the list of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. The Church possesses all truth. I shall never apologize for that and never give comfort to those who speak falsely. Pericles’ advice applies. John Almond Edmund Arrowsmith Ambrose Barlow John Boste Alexander Briant Edmund Campion Margaret Clitherow Philip Evans Thomas Garnet Edmund Gennings Richard Gwyn John Houghton Philip Howard John Jones John Kemble Luke Kirby Robert Lawrence David Lewis Anne Line John Lloyd Cuthbert Mayne Henry Morse Nicholas Owen John Payne Polydore Plasden John Plessington Richard Reynolds John Rigby John Roberts Alban Roe Ralph Sherwin Robert Southwell John Southworth John Stone John Wall Henry Walpole Margaret Ward Augustine Webster Swithun Wells Eustace White about Anne Line, martyr Shakespeare wrote the poem about Anne Line and her husband, Roger Line. Wikipedia states: “Line was hanged on 27 February 1601. She was executed immediately before two priests, Roger Filcock and Mark Barkworth, who received the more severe sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering. At the scaffold she repeated what she had said at her trial, declaring loudly to the bystanders: ‘I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far I am from repenting for having so done, that I wish, with all my soul, that where I have entertained one, I could have entertained a thousand.’” If she is not someone to emulate, who is?
 EIIR cypher Elizabeth II Regina
The greatest empire since Rome. It was the poet John Donne, pronounced the same as my own, born into a recusant family and later a cleric in the Church of England, who originated the famous phrase, “If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” 24 April 2012 Sodacan no changes made https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Cypher_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II.svg Martha’s Vineyard doesn’t want migrants. One could add dozens and dozens more localities where pampered barbarians live. Send a family to Maddow in Beverly Hills. She has 14 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. I watched a comedy skit on YouTube about two Santa Barbarians.  Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskit © Scholastic Children's Books
Doesn’t this single page of allegory make you stop and think? This is why I would rather be with young people. They loan me their books. Alexander (8) has more than 400 titles strewn all over the house, on the floor, on tables, on chairs, so many I must be careful not to slip and fall. I always return his books, for a book is more precious than all other objects. The other day during tutoring, I threw some of them over my shoulder in imitation of a stymied teacher who threw a book at a classmate. I will be reading, Murderous Maths, Do You Feel Lucky? By Kjartan Poskitt, published by Scholastic Children’s Books, London, © 2001, and will write a review in the future. It might have appealed to me when I was reading Mad Magazine, age 12.
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, published by Charlesbridge, written by Cindy Neuschwander and illustrated by Wayne Geehan (copyrights 1999), is an excellent math story suitable for elementary school students and adults like me and features a rhyming poem.
Characters: Sir Cumference, father Lady Di of Ameter, mother Radius, son and protagonist Sym, brother Geo of Metry, carpenter Lady Fingers, cousin Lady Fingers helps Radius make the pie. taking the veil, as seen by Douglas Stone remember those chrysanthemums as you read
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