Fic Rant: Part Deux

Feb 25, 2016 11:28

Dear Amateur Writer ( Read more... )

fic, pet peeves, fanfiction, writing

Leave a comment

Comments 6

winks7985 February 25 2016, 19:24:22 UTC
ALL. OF. THIS.

i actually was reading a book once, an actual published novel, and i had to start copy editing it. i didn't get past page 100. there were that many typos.

i was like, "that's it; i'm out."

Reply

fritti13 February 25 2016, 19:34:38 UTC
I've left scathing reviews on Amazon about (supposedly) professionally written books that read no better than bad fan fiction, both grammatically and plot wise. I've read some pretty damn good fan fiction from writers that put some pros to shame.

Reply


Lately cattraine February 25 2016, 19:54:25 UTC
I see peaked instead of peeked or piqued a lot and its incredibly annoying because none of these are the same thing.

Reply

Re: Lately fritti13 February 25 2016, 21:39:53 UTC
YES!! This.

Reply


boogieshoes February 26 2016, 00:18:29 UTC
i'm pretty sure that autocorrect has a firm hand in a lot of the modern spelling error twists. also, doing things like writing from iphones. we had a guy visit a chatroom the other day from a phone - couldn't understand him at *ALL*, and there was no clue to the 'problem' until i asked about autocorrect.

yet another reason why auto-correct and auto-spell features are not your friend. computers can be great dictionaries, but they're horrible spellers.

-boogie

Reply

fritti13 February 26 2016, 02:32:23 UTC
I have a friend who posts to Facebook by speaking into Siri. His posts are incomprehensible.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up