Ugh, I know guys, this is me performing much more than domestic violence on the dead horse but I swear to ing God, if this helps one person it was worth it.

Spelling and Grammar.

For the love- okay. Okay.

I get a once in a while typo. We're all human, we all make mistakes. I make them every day, and I just had about four in that last sentence. But you know what I did? I fixed the damn things. Proofreading does so much for a story, for the reader, for the environment, just... seriously. I cannot understand why someone would post something on a site like this, where anyone could read it, and not proofread. It's like... why would anyone care about your creativity if you don't even care enough to check it for mistakes?

And I get that you could miss a couple when you check it. I've done it, and there might be some in my stories right now. I don't think there are, but it's a possibilty.

But people, people, the heart of my message is this:

DON'T ING POST YOUR IF YOU DON'T USE BASIC SPELLING AND GRAMMAR RULES.

Capitalize your 'I's. Use periods and paragraphs and for the love of God, go crazy and throw some quotation marks in there. I will not read your story if the dialogue is like:

yoseob: but i luv yu!!

yu: NUH UH

And I'm sure I'm not the only one (oh, and spelling 'you' like 'yu' makes me want to kill people, seriously. I'll kill you). This isn't a play and you aren't Shakespeare. If you're writing a story, write a story. ASTORY. AMOTHERFKINGSTORY.

And then, if you want to seriously blow some minds, vary your sentence structure. Commas are pretty neat little guise, (I'm a comma-happy , I know it) and they can do sooo much for your story.

Just.. what I'm getting at is... Guys just try. Please, so Denali can keep her sanity, just try. Spellcheck and proofreading are two things that not only enhance your writing but the experience. The experience, yo.

This is coming from me hunting up new stories (because no one updates anymore, the 's up with that?) and almost ragequitting.

DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know I'm not the best writer. I know I'm not an English teacher or a grammar professor or a dictionary. There are mistakes in my writing, there are probably mistakes in this, but this is just meant to... I don't even know. I was pissed, k? (AND YOU SPELL OKAY LIKE THIS: OKAY. NOT OK. NOT O.K. NOT KAY. NOT K. OKAY. OKAY? OKAY.)

Da.