Spelling, rereading and Length.

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I know it's hard, but you need to do spell check on your work. WattPad has spell check, so don't even go 'I don't have spell check'. Bullshit!

I didn't have spell check on my computer til after 2 years of me writing. I know what it's like. But no one wants to read stories where back is spelt 'bakc'. I've seen it spelt like that, seriously, it's not a possitive asspect in a story.

Another thing that people do is write silly things accidently.

What I did once was wrote shit instead of shirt. It was very embarrassing. Another time I wrote back, instead of bag. So it turned out as:

'I put my back on the ground' instead of 'bag on the ground'

It can be funny if you do it once or twice, but if you do it every chapter, and do it 5 or 6 times, it will steal the quality of your work.

Simplest way to solve that is rereading. It takes half an hour (unless the stories 10 pages long *cringes*)

Length of your chapters is a big deal for some readers. Some readers like short chapters that are half a page long- I personally think that's way to short- but other like 10 pages long.

The chapters I write are between 2 and 5 pages long (and I rarely get up to five)

Your story is yours so have the chapters as long as you want. Just remember not everyone likes short chapters, or super long chapters. So I suggest most chapters being 2-ish pages long.

It also involves what is going on in that chapter, so don't get to the third page and have a panic attack. It's okay, 2 or 3 is an average page number.

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