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Um...
*starts gigglling*
How can you expect me to read a piece of fanfic where the first word in the story is a typo? Too instead of to? And halfway into the next paragraph, she spells bed 'bead' instead...
*would fall off chair laughing if not for the fact that should would be worse for it*
I mean, I can do typos. I do them regularly, though mostly in ordinary LJ entries. That's no excuse for sloppy writing, I know XD -- stories however... Well, I've been known to *gasp* post unbetaed and I'm not fond of doing so, but it happens. Doesn't mean I don't go over it with a fine toothed comb and have other people read through it to see if they can cath the worst mistakes. I do prefer an actual beta, at least for anything beyond porn battle entries. They generally have to get done fast *shrugs*
I just can't focus on a story these days if it's full of errors. I can't do the right thing with semi colons, so I tend to not use them unless a betareader suggests it and gives me a good reason to. I stick to commas instead. I'm a Dane, we use about three times as many commas as the English language, so I'm bound to get it wrong here and there -- at least until the betareader hits me over the head *g*
That said, misspelling too/to, breathe/breath etc... that's just plain sloppy.
How can you expect me to read a piece of fanfic where the first word in the story is a typo? Too instead of to? And halfway into the next paragraph, she spells bed 'bead' instead...
*would fall off chair laughing if not for the fact that should would be worse for it*
I mean, I can do typos. I do them regularly, though mostly in ordinary LJ entries. That's no excuse for sloppy writing, I know XD -- stories however... Well, I've been known to *gasp* post unbetaed and I'm not fond of doing so, but it happens. Doesn't mean I don't go over it with a fine toothed comb and have other people read through it to see if they can cath the worst mistakes. I do prefer an actual beta, at least for anything beyond porn battle entries. They generally have to get done fast *shrugs*
I just can't focus on a story these days if it's full of errors. I can't do the right thing with semi colons, so I tend to not use them unless a betareader suggests it and gives me a good reason to. I stick to commas instead. I'm a Dane, we use about three times as many commas as the English language, so I'm bound to get it wrong here and there -- at least until the betareader hits me over the head *g*
That said, misspelling too/to, breathe/breath etc... that's just plain sloppy.