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Questions about a storygame? Thoughts on Eternal? Any other IF you're playing out there?

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12 years ago

"You fancy yourself a writer, clearly. Why then do you have such a poor understanding of grammar and punctuation? You use both your and you're incorrectly, insert commas where they don't belong, omit them where they do, use periods when you need commas, don't know how to use quotation marks, and a host of other basic grammatical problems that make your work difficult to read. And I realize that your Midnight Sun story doesn't have any complaints about this in its comments, but nevertheless, your writing is extremely shoddy for someone who brags about writing between eighty to 100 pages in a single day. (Although that does rather explain the poor grammar, etc. On that note, you should know that your body doesn't have a capability to write that many pages in a day...it has the ABILITY TO write that much.) One has to wonder why, even though you supposedly had people looking over your work, not one person bothered to assist you in the editing department, badly needed as it was. Or why you didn't bother to do it yourself. You would have, were you actually a writer, because that's precisely what writers do. The good ones who pride themselves on work well done, anyway. 


By the way, if you reply to this with something along the lines of how grammar isn't that important, you'll just prove how little of a writer you actually are. Following basic, standard rules of grammar isn't just a Grammar Nazi thing, it's about making your work comprehensible. Any time a person has to stop and re-read something because the writer's shoddy grammar makes it difficult or impossible to grasp the meaning without a close re-examination of the sentence, it is the writer who is to blame"

The user, SILFREN sent me that today. What a lovely person.

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12 years ago

I responded with:

"My friend, capability and ability are synonyms and you're nothing more than an ass. 


OMS was published in 2008 when I was 16 years old and it was written in less than a week. I personally think that's impressive. You're right, there's a multitude of grammatical errors (and that is a MAJOR shortcoming) and the writing could even be described as juvenile, what's your point? 

I rushed that story way too fast but it's still nearly 500 pages and it's a cohesive (if very raw) work of fiction. So fuck off and go back to your cave."

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12 years ago

What a friendly person... Like this guy! ^_^

 

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12 years ago

Haha that ending so epic

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12 years ago

A dangling participle! cool

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12 years ago

That was awful!

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Awful funny that is!

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12 years ago

What, he mean "not good' grammar? Me no like; mean man's comment,s...

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12 years ago

My bet is insecure (possibly very plain looking, feels the need to put people who are proud of their writing down) middle aged (clearly a competent writer) woman (writing style).

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12 years ago

I thought woman (because she actually gave a shit)

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12 years ago

Haha, I prefer proper grammar as well, but I'm not so pretentious as to let it ruin a story with the quality of OMS for me. If it was some dinky little story, yeah it might hurt it a little more, but to be honest I was too caught up in the story to notice.

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12 years ago

Honestly, the criticism is completely valid and I'd understand if the grammar broke realism. That being said, clearly the motivation behind the message wasn't simply: "let's help an aspiring author out" haha. Message was titled: 

Do you know anything at all about basic grammar?

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12 years ago

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"Do you know anything at all about basic grammar?"

Answer: Yes. Do you know anything about rhetorical questions?

I mean, if taken literally, that question is yes to everyone in the world who knows the difference between a capital and lower case for at least one letter...

Or even if you put a period at the end of your grammar holocaust sentences.

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12 years ago

I also love this grammatically incorrect sentence: "you'll just prove how little of a writer you actually are." I think she meant "poor".

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12 years ago

Perhaps she just thinks you are really really short?

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12 years ago

Ha, this is hilarious. Sure OMDS had some grammatical errors, but the work was amaizing, and is my Favriote story on the site for a reason. It's 500 pages, and, considering how much work it takes to simply write that much while keeping the reader interested, it's amaizing that it is not riddled with mistakes, and the worst you can find is comma errors.

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12 years ago

I sent them a message asking if they knew anything about waffles. I think it's clear who won this round.

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12 years ago
Congrats on the hate mail!

As someone who recieves negative comments on a semi-regular basis, I can truly say this is one of the better ones. This person apparently got so pissed off that they couldn't just make a quick comment about how much you suck, they had to put time aside and write a rant filled PM to make sure you saw everything they thought about you! You can tell a lot of internet rage went into this!

Anyway, sounds like you handled it well in your reply.

EDIT: Damn, even using a PC with Internet Explorer, still get wall o' text.

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12 years ago

"This person apparently got so pissed off that they couldn't just make a quick comment about how much you suck, they had to put time aside and write a rant filled PM to make sure you saw everything they thought about you!"

 

hahahahahaha, that's so perversely flattering.

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12 years ago

Always flattering if someone takes the time to start raving.

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12 years ago

It seems that..

Silfren created an account for that purpose only.