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• 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.

• souress koko and the stone of caious.

  (#) Ithilwen 2006-09-04

  Oh! Real review: by "souress" do you mean "sorceress"? That's a woman who can cast spells and do magic and stuff. Also, do you mean the stone of "chaos"? Chaos is pronounced Kay-Oss and means total disorder. I can't tell if this is what you mean by looking at your writing. These aren't just little spelling errors; they're crippling.

  Author's response

  ok,your first comment was nice of you to tell what a beta reader is, but this one, that makes me feel angry on how you rubbed it in that way. i mean, how would YOU like it if you suck at selling/grammer so bad that you get nothing but flames on how they are better then spelling and blab, blab blab and they give you the lowest ranking possable. if you i sucked at spelling so bad, then why don't YOU be mine beta reader?

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