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12. FDJSLAKJSHDF

12. FDJSLAKJSHDF

Imagine me reading a book description. It's the most amazing, intriguing, appealing description ever, and I'm thinking, "Hey, this sounds interesting!" Then I open the book and read a paragraph...

...and then realize the grammar/spelling is so bad I have to wonder how (or if) the author passed primary school English. (Although I don't really blame you; my elementary school taught us like no grammar at all. I literally learned all my grammar from reading).

Listen up, guys. If you enjoy writing, you better learn some proper English first, people. I'm not saying my grammar and spelling is perfect (it's not; I mean, this is English we're talking about, where "phonetics" begins with a "P-H"), but how is anyone supposed to understand your book if half the sentences are like:

"Because we went to teh park. At the next mornning he said 'hey do you want watch movie!' i however screamed 'OFF COURSE!!!!!!'"

Okay. So maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit because nobody actually writes like that...right? Boy I hope not because even autocorrect is capable of fixing up sentences like that, and everyone knows what a huge let-down autocorrect is. Unless you can find an editor who would actually be willing to edit your stories, you have to take grammar lessons or something. Even if your plot was one in a million, you can't expect anyone to be able to get through a chapter without thinking FDJSLAKJSHDF if you don't start spelling things correctly. Most the time, just reading your writing over before you post it should help...it's not that hard, really.

Some stories I read just make me wonder if the author has ever read a book. Like, if you read even a page of professional writing, you'd learn sooner or later that you're supposed to use this wonderful thing called PUNCTUATION.

I'm sure there are tons of amazing, unique, one-of-a-kind stories out there, but you have to remember that things like grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure all contribute to the flow of a story. Without that stuff, your story is unreadable. It's like feeding the most delicious pizza in the world to someone without tastebuds, ya know? If that makes any sense.