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Sep. 3rd, 2003 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoweeI was about to answer on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roxx's comments, but I just had so much more to say...
So, this (and comments) amused me.
Wow, editors get damn good money to be English teachers. All this time I thought an editor's job involved so much more than letting writer's be too lazy to learn how to spell. Hmm. (Let's not even get into grammar or a poetic love for the language. These things aren't important either.)
I, of course, make spelling errors and have typos all the freaking time, but with something like your online profile I'd have to say it's worth proofreading until you have everything spelled correctly.
Have we also noticed the decline in published writing? If you tell a good story you can get published - whether or not you have a love for the language. This probably has to do with the fact that publishers don't bother to read books before they publish them. They let the author "sell" them the book in a synopsis and decide from there whether to publish. A good ad agency can sell your book better than you submitting a work of literary art...
I'm sorry, but the reason I am so hard on best sellers (and myself, believe me!) is because it's bland and tasteless. I like writing that challenges me - with meat on its bones. That's the way I want to write and the way I don't write which is why I have the break downs most of you have seen where I feel completely insignificant. See where I'm coming from?
I'm not saying you have to be a great speller to write, but is it really too much to ask that people who can't spell at least TRY to spell - instead of spelling everything in 'net terms?
R U comin' 4 me B-cuz I'm cummin' 4 U.
Yeah, you look smart.
Don't get me wrong. I know spelling can be hard for some people to get, but the fact is the more you try - the harder you work on things like mechanics - the easier they will become until you don't even have to think about it anymore and you can concentrate on more important things like plots and dialogues (what a concept!)
Of course, I'm probably just pissy about things right now because life is pissing me off.
Lord, I have to hope she never trips on my LJ or she'll be annoyed - of course I told her this so it's not really news.
See, her fiance proposed, but he didn't give her the ring because he didn't have it yet. Now she wants me to call him and tell him to give it to her because she knows he has it. WHAT!? First of all, why should I be in the middle of this? Oh, right! Because she has nothing to lose this way. This way she gets what she wants (to be surprised) but I get to have the fiance thinking I'm going to be sticking my nose in on every issue. Secondly, why can't she tell him herself? What kind of relationship is that going to make? Oh, right. She can't tell him because she wants to be surprised and doesn't want to feel like she's initiating everything. Hey, guess what girls - if you want a man who is going to be wonderful, think of everything himself, always surprise you, always bring romance to your life, basically be the man from one of those romance novels... you.... should.... do... nothing because HE DOESN'T EXIST!!!! GAH!
And, hubby arrived home. I didn't miss him. So what's wrong with me? He missed me. I spent yesterday trying not to focus on all the things about him I didn't miss and trying to find something I did. As yet, I'm still blank. This can't be good.
You know, it's semi-upsetting to have people I know in reality on LJ because I have to censor myself. Don't get me wrong, I love these people, but there are certain things I need to get off my chest and there isn't ANYONE to whom I can vent...
roxx's comments, but I just had so much more to say...So, this (and comments) amused me.
Wow, editors get damn good money to be English teachers. All this time I thought an editor's job involved so much more than letting writer's be too lazy to learn how to spell. Hmm. (Let's not even get into grammar or a poetic love for the language. These things aren't important either.)
I, of course, make spelling errors and have typos all the freaking time, but with something like your online profile I'd have to say it's worth proofreading until you have everything spelled correctly.
Have we also noticed the decline in published writing? If you tell a good story you can get published - whether or not you have a love for the language. This probably has to do with the fact that publishers don't bother to read books before they publish them. They let the author "sell" them the book in a synopsis and decide from there whether to publish. A good ad agency can sell your book better than you submitting a work of literary art...
I'm sorry, but the reason I am so hard on best sellers (and myself, believe me!) is because it's bland and tasteless. I like writing that challenges me - with meat on its bones. That's the way I want to write and the way I don't write which is why I have the break downs most of you have seen where I feel completely insignificant. See where I'm coming from?
I'm not saying you have to be a great speller to write, but is it really too much to ask that people who can't spell at least TRY to spell - instead of spelling everything in 'net terms?
R U comin' 4 me B-cuz I'm cummin' 4 U.
Yeah, you look smart.
Don't get me wrong. I know spelling can be hard for some people to get, but the fact is the more you try - the harder you work on things like mechanics - the easier they will become until you don't even have to think about it anymore and you can concentrate on more important things like plots and dialogues (what a concept!)
Of course, I'm probably just pissy about things right now because life is pissing me off.
Lord, I have to hope she never trips on my LJ or she'll be annoyed - of course I told her this so it's not really news.
See, her fiance proposed, but he didn't give her the ring because he didn't have it yet. Now she wants me to call him and tell him to give it to her because she knows he has it. WHAT!? First of all, why should I be in the middle of this? Oh, right! Because she has nothing to lose this way. This way she gets what she wants (to be surprised) but I get to have the fiance thinking I'm going to be sticking my nose in on every issue. Secondly, why can't she tell him herself? What kind of relationship is that going to make? Oh, right. She can't tell him because she wants to be surprised and doesn't want to feel like she's initiating everything. Hey, guess what girls - if you want a man who is going to be wonderful, think of everything himself, always surprise you, always bring romance to your life, basically be the man from one of those romance novels... you.... should.... do... nothing because HE DOESN'T EXIST!!!! GAH!
And, hubby arrived home. I didn't miss him. So what's wrong with me? He missed me. I spent yesterday trying not to focus on all the things about him I didn't miss and trying to find something I did. As yet, I'm still blank. This can't be good.
You know, it's semi-upsetting to have people I know in reality on LJ because I have to censor myself. Don't get me wrong, I love these people, but there are certain things I need to get off my chest and there isn't ANYONE to whom I can vent...
