Interjections!

Wow! Finally! We are at the last installment of the series about the parts of speech. Yup! And this post is about interjections. 

Wow! Finally! Yup! These are all interjections, the eighth part of speech we will discuss.

What is an interjection? An interjection is a word that expresses emotion. Here are some things to know about interjections:

• Interjections have no grammatical role in a sentence and are simply words that express strong emotion. Nouns are subjects or objects. Verbs provide the action in the sentence. Pronouns take the place of nouns. Adjectives describe nouns. Adverbs modify verbs. Prepositions appear in phrases to tell where or what kind (and modify nouns or verbs in the sentence). Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses. But interjections have no role like any of these. They simply stand there alone to express emotion.
• Interjections can be made up: Yowma! That’s a great car!
• Interjections can be more than one word long: Hell’s bells! or Oh, my!
• Interjections can be followed by a comma rather than an exclamation mark: Well, I hope so.
• Interjections don’t necessarily have to be at the beginning of a sentence, but they generally are:  That is some dog, huh?
• Interjections are generally used in informal English or dialogue. They are not usually used in formal writing or speaking.
• Interjections probably shouldn’t be overused.
• Interjections, like anything else, should not be followed by multiple exclamation points!

That is just about it for interjections. Pretty simple. Short blog post. 

I could tell you about my new home: Florida!

I have now been in Florida over two months, although I am currently in California to see my son, my friends, have Thanksgiving with friends here, and ready my house for sale, which is imminent. It just has not closed yet. 

I am staying at my son-in-law and daughter’s house, but they are gone for work and won’t be back until May. I have looked around for someplace to live there, but mostly online so far.  I will start looking more seriously after the new year, but probably will stay housesitting for them until they return.

I have attempted to get into the writing world there. I have joined FAPA, which is Florida Authors and Publishers Association. It is a sister organization to BAIPA (Bay Area Independent Publishers Association), which I was active in in California. However, unlike BAIPA, FAPA does not have regular meetings, probably because it covers the entire state. They do have events, but I have seen nothing so far. I have received no e-mails from them, have lost all the information I put in my profile on their website, and frankly am disappointed so far.

I have also joined FWA, Florida Writers Association. It is similar to California Writers. However, once you join you can go to any meetings anywhere you want in Florida. The problem is that most of the meetings I have read about are critique groups. I am used to meetings with speakers. I don’t really need a critique group right now. 

However, I have met a couple of book people online. I met one on Next Door in some kind of book thread. She has written some books, as has her husband. She writes about business networking. She and her husband did an author event for local authors at one of the branches of the library in Tampa, so I went to that.  Then, I met someone in an IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association) webinar. IBPA is the umbrella association for both BAIPA and FAPA. They asked people to write where they were from in the webinar question-and-answer-space, and someone wrote from Tampa, so I wrote I had just moved near Tampa. I saw she belonged to FAPA too, so she messaged me and we finally met — at Barnes and Noble, of course! She is a publisher with an education background. She publishes other people’s books.

Finally, I went to a big author event in St. Petersburg, sponsored by the Tampa Times. They had some big-time authors there, including Dave Barry, Meg Cabot and R. L. Stine. Then, there were also lesser known authors I (like me), who were vendors. I met a poet who was a vendor. He told me about a author event in Venice (Florida, not Italy) in March, so I signed up to do that. So I need to get all my marketing stuff in order — meaning getting new stuff. Venice is about an hour south of me right now.

Workwise, I have been keeping up with the blog posts, as you notice….I am updating my big workbook, procrastinating on revising the dating memoir, and planning to write the business writing book next year (which is soon!)

 

Happy Thanksgiving!