And Another Thing....

[filkertom]

Goddammit, I know I'm not perfect in this myself, but I try -- really, I swear I try

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[ravenclaw_eric]

One of my pet peeves is "you're" for "your" and vice-versa; I also can be driven mad by misspellings that show clearly that the writer relied exclusively on a spell-check program instead of going over her MS and knowing which spellings were correct.

As for good fanfic...you could try mine (I'm "Technomad" on ff.n) or the writings of "excessivelyperky," or the "Dangerverse" main storyline (available at several different sites; I don't know how to put links in here).

[celisnebula]

I second excessivelyperky! Her stuff tends to be well written.

Midnight by the Weasley Watch is one of my favorite stories written by her.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1216035/1/Midnight_by_the_Weasley_Watch

Anything by copperbadge is worth the read, no matter what fandom. And I highly recommend ubiquirk.

[kayshapero]

For the Dangerverse, try Fanficauthors.net. This is the author list - the author's name is whydoyouneedtoknow.

[thistlethorn]

I have no patience anymore with poor spelling/grammar/usage. None.

As for fanfiction, just off the top of my head:
indeedsir has countless excellent Jeeves/Wooster stories. Slash, mostly. I've got my Data/Tasha TNG novel (but, really, it was Pt 1 of an unfinished 2-volume piece, so that's a drawback) in PDF, WORD and MOBI files, crammed full of illos. Reply, I'll email or put it up at YouSendIt. (People seem to like it still, although my writing has improved since 1990.)

[debber5]

Punctuation, grammar, math skills, etc. aren't being taught as they were "in our day". I've been at a fast food restaurant when the register wasn't working and the clerk was so overwhelmed that he/she didn't seem to have a clue how to figure out how much I owed. (Three items from the dollar menu plus 18 cents for tax.)

[ashkitty]

"Loose" for "lose" is one that drives me mad as well. A little more obscure but also annoying is saying someone is 'unphased' when they mean 'unfazed'. If the character is 'unphased', they need to be time travelling or walking through a wall or something.

[filkertom]

[nods vigorously] Also "peaked", as in either "she peaked through the window" or, more likely, "her curiosity was peaked".

[technoshaman]

Brake/break is another one... "She hit the breaks too late, and slammed into the mailbox, brakeing the headlight..."

Is this turning into a grammar/punctuation Bulwer-Lytton?

"This is the sort of pedantry up with which we will not put!" -- Sir Winnie C.

[jss1113]

The one that jars me out of the story is when someone puts their hands on the other person's waste [sic]. Ew.

[unclelumpy]

Read any good fanfic... Ever?

[technoshaman]

yes, actually, both MacGyver and Harry Potter. The former involving a trip to Ireland just at the end of the Troubles, and the latter involving an accident between Snape and Hermione and some polyjuice. The ending of the latter was a little soft, but the end of the former was fabulous, involving rescuing Mac from an Irish seisiun (pronounced "session", as in jam)...

speaking of which, I'm headed for one in about an hour. :)

[filkertom]

Yep. Depending on your inclinations, I've even written some. Obviously, ymmv.

[joyful]

I've seen some amazing fic. This is my favorite one: http://www.dymphna.net/ucsl/archive/niccy-timemeansnothing.txt
It was written about 12 years ago, and it's still my baseline for fanfic.