Ok, so I thought it would be fun to do a little informal critique on each other's fiction. The idea stemmed from
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THE GREAT WRITE MEME- Comment with your username, and those willing shall reply with thoughts on any fiction, fandom or original, that you compose. That means it does not make a difference what
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This is what confuses me, because I spellcheck. Constantly. I think maybe what I keep missing are the homonymns, either that or my dictionary got corrupted somewhere along the line.
Some stories get multiple pass throughs, and still look like they were unbeta'd. And beleive me that's very-- disconcerting.
As I said above, I have patience issues which I'm trying to work on, my current fics are coming along far more slowly for several reasons, one of which is my own purposeful slow down. It's not that I give up on it, it's that I-- well I honestly think (especially with the last one) that there are possibly a handful of errors left and that the fresh eyes of readers will catch them far more quickly.
As for the LJ post. I agree with the sentiment, just not the expression of thought.
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This is largely why I haven't written anything longer than a few hundred words in the past... well, more than a year. Good luck with getting a grip on your impatience. It's a bitch.
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Your stories are interesting to me because they are some of the very, very few that I actually read (and read again and again and again) despite the glaring and multiple grammar/punctuation errors. I usually don't have the patience to slog thru a story that keeps throwing me out of the narrative with misplaced commas and random apostrophes and homonymn errors, etc. But yours are able to make me work thru those issues because your plots are strong, your characterizations are dead-on, and you have a great hand with dialogue.
I do disagree with the person who said you had an oversized ego. Yes, you have posted rants and bitchfests on your LJ in the past, but overall I've taken those more as you just venting in general. Not being a writer I can't even imagine how difficult it must be for you to create a story and have dozens of people trample all over it. I do hope you will take my advice as it's meant - a way to get even better. Because honestly, if you had a stronger beta and dealt with the grammar/punctuation problems, you'd give every BNF out there a run for their money.
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Actually part of it is my own impatience, really. I rush and I push and I don't send back for revisions and I don't find second betas sometimes. Before I completely give up on my current ones I should, you know, impliment these other things too.
Thank you for the ego comment. Yes, really, you've got it right for the most part. Thank you for the lovely advice, I know exactly how you meant it, there was absolutely no malice felt at all. Your post is the sort of comments I was talking about in my LJ, or rather, not talking about.
Thanks again!
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