Grammer Mistskes

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It's been three years since I am using wattpad and I have made my idea about the stories on this website.

There are of course those which are perfect from grammer to plot and those which are not. I must admit that bad grammer ruins any story for me whether the ideas are great and original or not.

If you write "You're" instead of "Your" then you are automatically classified as a bad book and will be deleted from my library.

Harsh but this experience taught me that if you don't know the difference between a verb and a posessive pronoun then the farther I read the more mistakes and whether you admit it or not grammer mistakes ruin every good story.

So I picked up the most encountered mistakes here on Wattpad and I'd like for you to avoid:

1)《Your hurting.》
Correction: You're hurting. (The person is hurting, we can replace "You're" with "To Be": To be hurting.)

You're game》
Correction: Your game. (The person has/possesses a game. This is a possessive pronoun; we can replace "Your" with "My" or "His". The sentence will still make perfect sentence.)

2) When you express an idea, make it short, clear and simple. If you are going to write about the depressive past of the girl, avoid repetitions (detailed below). What are repetitions? Write your sentence. What is it about? (Billie being angry because her mom is a hoe.) Now insert some plane actions. (Billie fiercely wipes her tears). Now write another sentence. What is it about? And surprise! It's about Billie being sad because her mom is a hoe. Again. These type of paragraphs add nothing to the story and are annoying. It's simply irrelevant. I am a writer as well and I know that you write this way because you don't know what you are going to write after you're done with the idea. So you just express it several times in different ways, this is when you need to move on. If you don't know what to write, save your draft and think about something that will make the story move, that will excite the reader!

3)Repetitions: You can not use the same word over and over again in the same paragraphe. If you use it more than twice it will become irritating and, trust me, the reader won't be very thrilled to read what's next.

Marina was my soulmate, my helper, my everything... When I settled down, Marina wiped my tears away. I was such a waste of time to Marina.

I spoke in slow, desperate breaths.
"Ma-rina?"》

See? That's not really intriguing. First of, you are trying to make the reader sad and compassionate by showing the poor state the girl is in. The actions are there, if it was a movie I would've felt those things but here it doesen't work!

4) CAPITAL LETTERS: The use of capital letters must be justified. These are used when:

a) Name (ex: Alex, Billie, Sarah... )
b) Place (ex: New York, Paris...)
c) To begin a sentence (ex: She was happy)
d) Abbreviations (ex: OCD, NYC... )

Capital letters must not be used to show that a person is angry or screaming. This is why there are verbs such as "Screaming", "Shouting", "Crying", etc...

5) I forgot this one. And honestly I am so hungry I don't care if I am being hoe by not helping you avoid this fifth most encountered mistake on wattpad. Back to you after I take care of my pOOooOor Poor poor stomach.

Ps: You can unleash your anger about my mistakes on the comment section below. You can also help fill in the fifth mistake by telling me the ones that annoy you the most.

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