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Does anyone actually realize that beta reading actually involves ... wait for it... READING?
Yet another fic where the author thanks so and so for being their *airquotes* beta reader, and within two paragraphs I notice three or four errors.
Dude. Running something through word (or the equivalent) spell and grammar check doesn't count as beta reading. The author should be able to do that much.
Let's not even get into continuity and form.
*mutter mutter grumble*
Kids these days. A good walk five miles to a beta reader in a howling blizzard up-hill both ways would teach them a thing or two.
*grumble mutter mutter*
ETA: It's 'would have', people, not 'would of'. *mutter grumble mutter*
Yet another fic where the author thanks so and so for being their *airquotes* beta reader, and within two paragraphs I notice three or four errors.
Dude. Running something through word (or the equivalent) spell and grammar check doesn't count as beta reading. The author should be able to do that much.
Let's not even get into continuity and form.
*mutter mutter grumble*
Kids these days. A good walk five miles to a beta reader in a howling blizzard up-hill both ways would teach them a thing or two.
*grumble mutter mutter*
ETA: It's 'would have', people, not 'would of'. *mutter grumble mutter*
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Won't someone think of the fiction?!?
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It's shit like that that makes me think I can get published. Especially when I start seeing it in published fiction.
Okay, maybe not that bad, but really.
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Argh.
Do I do things like this? Yes. Do I check, double check, have someone beta read and then check it again?
Yes.
'Course, I could be a little bit obsessive. Heh.
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Which is why I never submit, 'cause it's never right. But.
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*dragon snort*
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I am so very neurotic by now.
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*excited for you*
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*hugs*
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*hides*
*late*
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Well, they are if you really know editors...
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Arrrgh! That is SUCH a peeve of mine!
Also:
The past tense of lead is led, not lead. *g*
Something is better THAN something else, not better THEN something else.
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Unless it's weird.
REIN. You pull on the REINS. You REIGN over a RAINy kingdom. Bloody hell.
There's an icon of a whole bunch of these. Although I'm amazed that I've managed to avoid the usual manifestation of Murphy, wherein every time you write a comment correcting someone's grammar or spelling, you make a mistake yourself. Not a post, never a post, which you can edit. A comment.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
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A huge chunk of my job consists of editing reports written by supposedly educated people. These people make at least twice the salary I do, but they cannot care less about how shitty their work looks. I should just start turning things in and letting them look stupid in front of their supervisors.
Arrgh. "Could care less" is another one that irks. Arrrrgh!!!! "Could NOT," people! You "could NOT care less!" Because, really? Not as effective if you could still maybe care a little less but just haven't gotten around to it yet...
Man, I need a nap.
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My current pet peeve is "its" and "it's".
*grumps*
"it's" is a contraction. "It is". "its" is possessive. It is not that difficult.
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Or what about possessives when they really mean plurals?
"There were a number of officers' at the scene."
Hmm, a number of officers' what exactly? Guns? Buns? Balls?
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Or, you know. That bug's, too. ;)
*ducks*
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You'd better hide, too!
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Spooky icon!
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This one, too...
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And why does it look like it's moving when it's not? I haven't had that much Disarono...
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The scene that it came from was just so very much The Ring. *g* Creeped me out.
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Jeez. I've got to do the download thing!! Must....see....ring-like...ep...
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And let's not get into the topic of punctuation. There's a book out there called, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." It's a gripping read. That's all I'm saying!
/rant!
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That and the Deluxe Transitive Vampire.
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I've read that! It's a very good book. *g*