Grammar and Shipyards
Paulo Coelho is notorious amongst Brazilians for screwing up the Portugese language. Screenplays make sense if formatted correctly. Trainspotting and Wuthering Heights, both brilliant novels, include barely-comprehensible speech.
I had tons of other examples while washing dishes, but have forgotten about them upon seeing this annoying little keyboard. My point: why the hell do people so much about grammar and authors writing in script style when the point of reading a story is reading a good story? Granted, we aren't professionally published writers in the physical dimension of this universe; but the internet contains so much unassuming talent that owns all over the good things IRL. Over the past week, I've seen examples underlining the difference between bad grammar and incomprehensible prose. The first is usually caused by people who use ESL; the second, I've seen in some native English speakers who have grown careless with their own language. I ain't giving links because that would be mean.
Ch-yeah, babycakes: them evil pplz who z is prolly ur neighbor. Go weed your own backyards, and give us Asians grammar lessons instead of pointed glares.
Don't get me wrong: I have no stories to be reviewed. I've been looking through advice posts, tutorials and review shops; all I found is a great big cesspool of mean.
I guess so many reviewers seem mean because of the lack of communication skills. I can't link to because my internet is , though. Try looking up sandwich method. It might help.
Oh wait, I'm supposed to be ranting, aren't I? I'm supposed to be typing down some ten reviews, too. But my sense of time is warped, and while evaluative notes I've made remain written, I don't care. I'll be posting at least four of those tomorrow, anyway. Plus that detailed description of how I do reviews. Plus the related sample fic. Plus a few oneshots. Plus these were supposed to have been posted two days ago. Why did I volunteer to do this again? Whatever. The first week of this account has seen more than enough updates. It's high time it slowed down to a moderate pace.
Little fangirls who have only been living in this world for about sixteen years, roleplaying for seven, can be intensely high-strung. What screwed up your reading glasses and made you care so much more for structure than plot, eh?
Why in the world would amateur reviewers compare one author's work against more experienced writers? If you were being remotely sensitive and objective, you'd realize that the best comparison against one person would be themselves. Give me crap about how more experienced people are meant to be inspiration if you are one.
Objective? But that's a subjective way of giving crap opinion!
No , Sherlock. Objective on the review, while remaining Author-centric.
A review, though made up of personal output, doesn't have to be all I hate your freaking script style, Random OTPs because I say so, and other such nonsense written with verbosely impressive flair. Who in hell died and made you dance, Lucifer?
I dislike a whole load of Kpop groups, but I've never made a review based on which characters I liked and who I hated. It's not nice, and it's unprofessional.
And don't make your misunderstanding of scripts affect your review. Go find a proper screenplay and weep to its brilliance. People on AFF don't even write in script style. They mostly write in an illiterate manner. Again, give a grammar lesson. Nicely. Sandwich. Pillow. Similar . I forgot. I don't take down notes in class, weirdass. I hated my first major, but learned a bit.
But we ain't no professionals, says me! But like I says, so many talented people on the internet, writing epics for free, make S.Meyer seem like a rock with feelings written on it with parrot droppings. Most humans with brains make her seem so, anyway.
Whatever. I don't like you, you-know-who.
I made no valid arguments. I at ranting. Sorry to all drama .
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