Review for souress koko and the stone of caious.

souress koko and the stone of caious.

(#) xwingace 2006-08-27

I honestly can't tell wether this story is any good or not. I can't read it!

People have said it already, I'm going to say it again: get a spellchecker at least, better yet, a beta reader.

Here are some tips already:
-After a period, a comma, or any other punctuation, you need to follow with a space. After a period, you also need to start with a capital letter.

-Write out numbers, except maybe in dates. "A one year old girl", instead of "a 1 yr girl"

-Reread what you've written, at least one day after you've written it, preferably more. You can wait that long before posting it, really. If you reread carefully and attentively, you will likely catch quite a number of mistakes and misspellings already, if only because you don't recognise the words that you've written.

Practice makes perfect, so don't let people's harshness stop you. But also remember that people have to be able to read what you've written in order to comment favourably.

Saying that you are bad at spelling is not a valid excuse, especially not in this day of easily available spellchecks. Many people on the internet do not have English as their first language, or are dislexic, but they do not see that as an excuse to turn out bad stories either. Neither should you. It's a sign that you aren't prepared to put that little bit of effort in as a courtesy to the reader to make it readable, so why should they put the effort in to make a comment.

Good Luck,

XWA

Author's response

i only type out the stories in the box there.i don't do files.