On writing...
Again 'grammar' rant. I mean... I don't really mind it if people did point out what's wrong. But when they didn't and just rant and assumed you're psychic to be able to know what they're thinking, yeah it annoys.
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Because this kinda bothered me. Well, in terms of language... I admit I'm also not that good great a writer but at least I'd like to think that I'm okay in that respect. I mean I've seen far more atrocious writing than mine be that in fanfic writing or random English written/spoken by people I knew. And usually when I'm writing fics, I often used past (simple, continuous, perfect) tense throughout in the narrative regardless when that particular chapter was set. Because writing narrative in present tenses is much more tricky and easier for one to make even more grammatical mistakes. And as far as I could recall, I don't usually make it a habit to write in past and present tenses in the same sentence!
Granted I occasionally did some mistakes here and there... but it's not like I can always be able to spot them right away. So...
I don't really get this. If you so annoyed with the supposedly grammar mistakes that I did, why don't you POINT out WHERE I did that mistake so that I could actually take a closer look at it and see what was wrong with that sentence? Because I tried looking back at the chapters pointed out and I don't see what you're seeing! Times like this I HOPE people SPECIFY WHERE the MISTAKES are. Else your review/complaints/whatever just going to be JUST an eyesore. Funny enough, if more than one person said the same thing on the same chapters and/or pointed out something that may be a problem I would have not been so frustrated. BUT YOU ALONE! I can't ASFKLGHDSHJ.AJ!
Unless you mean the dialogues. Which was ridiculous. Because if my characters were talking about something they were doing at the moment, or something in the past... or even things they would be doing later--you can't have me having them talk in the SAME tense throughout. THEN it would be confusing as hell.
Urgh... regardless, I replied nicely even though I'm seething. Because that was proper, right?
When I said people can point out what I did wrong or even give those constructive crits, I do not mean you can just complain saying I messed up something BUT DID NOT point out where to help me SEE that supposed mistake. Doing that was just pointless, in my opinion. I've given my share of concrits as well but I usually point out a line or a misspelled words or weird lines that I think was weird/sounded wrong. Because I'm a writer too and know you often tend to miss things despite reading the same thing so many times. THAT, I did. Unless a WHOLE chapter was riddled with broken/fangirl (yes, I call that its own language) English, yes... I'd say something along the lines of, "author needs to at least run that piece with a word processor's checker." But for things that normal checkers wouldn't easily notice, I would point out specifically to the writer.
Okay... got that out of the system.
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Because this kinda bothered me. Well, in terms of language... I admit I'm also not that good great a writer but at least I'd like to think that I'm okay in that respect. I mean I've seen far more atrocious writing than mine be that in fanfic writing or random English written/spoken by people I knew. And usually when I'm writing fics, I often used past (simple, continuous, perfect) tense throughout in the narrative regardless when that particular chapter was set. Because writing narrative in present tenses is much more tricky and easier for one to make even more grammatical mistakes. And as far as I could recall, I don't usually make it a habit to write in past and present tenses in the same sentence!
Granted I occasionally did some mistakes here and there... but it's not like I can always be able to spot them right away. So...
I don't really get this. If you so annoyed with the supposedly grammar mistakes that I did, why don't you POINT out WHERE I did that mistake so that I could actually take a closer look at it and see what was wrong with that sentence? Because I tried looking back at the chapters pointed out and I don't see what you're seeing! Times like this I HOPE people SPECIFY WHERE the MISTAKES are. Else your review/complaints/whatever just going to be JUST an eyesore. Funny enough, if more than one person said the same thing on the same chapters and/or pointed out something that may be a problem I would have not been so frustrated. BUT YOU ALONE! I can't ASFKLGHDSHJ.AJ!
Unless you mean the dialogues. Which was ridiculous. Because if my characters were talking about something they were doing at the moment, or something in the past... or even things they would be doing later--you can't have me having them talk in the SAME tense throughout. THEN it would be confusing as hell.
Urgh... regardless, I replied nicely even though I'm seething. Because that was proper, right?
When I said people can point out what I did wrong or even give those constructive crits, I do not mean you can just complain saying I messed up something BUT DID NOT point out where to help me SEE that supposed mistake. Doing that was just pointless, in my opinion. I've given my share of concrits as well but I usually point out a line or a misspelled words or weird lines that I think was weird/sounded wrong. Because I'm a writer too and know you often tend to miss things despite reading the same thing so many times. THAT, I did. Unless a WHOLE chapter was riddled with broken/fangirl (yes, I call that its own language) English, yes... I'd say something along the lines of, "author needs to at least run that piece with a word processor's checker." But for things that normal checkers wouldn't easily notice, I would point out specifically to the writer.
Okay... got that out of the system.