A Rant Book

Gr8 Txt, M8

Wlcum bck 2 my stori evrybody. 2day w r tlking about grammr.

If I had a dime for every time I stumbled across a terribly written Wattpad story I'd have enough coin to fill a giant Scrooge McDuck-like vault with them. Stacks on stacks, ya know?

This is something I just genuinely don't understand.

How could anyone possibly look at a story they've written in mostly trash text format with terrible grammar and be like, "ya, I'm proud of that, I'm totally okay with this being out in the world. Publish."

Sis.

I don't get it.

I'm hyper critical. I could draft up the literary equivalent of the Mona Lisa and still be like, "trash, I'm terrible and this is the worst thing to ever be penned to paper."

I get that uploads to this site may not be perfect since, realistically speaking, a lot of them are first drafts. That's totally fine. This is a site for amateur writers and it's cool to post a work-in-progress, imo, as long as you're aware of that.

But, really.

What's even more confusing is when those stories get votes. Like... what? They get hella votes sometimes. Like,,, what??

This is a problem for the most part I've noticed with fanfiction.

A whole bunch of amateur fanfic writers don't put the bare minimum grammatical effort into their stories. I guess, for some reason,writing a story about the entirety of 1D falling in love with their bland, 14yr old protagonist inspires people to throw grammatical caution to the wind. Why not, ya know?

Again, I'm no grammar nazi. I don't mind some reasonable grammar mistakes or story formatting problems for the most part. It's when there's a complete lack of effort and disregard for the most basic of English grammar rules.

I don't want to feel like I'm having a stroke when I'm reading your story. It's not fun and it makes me question my mental stability.

I genuinely feel like most of these kinds of stories are written my misguided twelve year olds. Which is fine. A little bit concerning, given the, uh, contents of some stories.

But, uh, hey-