[ SECRET POST #2916 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2916 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: slightly ot but

[(Anonymous)]

that's what I said. they're the GIVEN basics.
(although I'm sure more than enough non-native speakers won't notice when you slip up.)

why start over with the basics every time, even for advanced critique? and no, this is hardly something like martial arts where every basic stance counts. writing fiction is more than the sum of its parts. you can write evocative language without being 100% correct in your grammar (spelling less so).

Re: slightly ot but

[(Anonymous)]

Because you have to know what rules you're breaking and why they have the effect they do.

Because going over the foundations to make sure you actually do have a true grasp of them -- and not just the ingrained bad habits you've picked up from reading badly-written fanfic and imagine "Those things must be okay because every 13 year old on FFnet does it!" -- is never a bad idea.

If you cannot grasp the basics, then a reader will not trust you to take them far enough to show them the evocative language.

You're not Hemingway. You need SPaG. As do 99% of us, or our work is going to be a mess masquerading as experimental avant-garde just to make us feel better about the fact no one understands the sheer genius of this crap no one can understand.

Re: slightly ot but

[(Anonymous)]

EAT YOUR FUCKING SPaGHETTI!