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This might explain a lot.
I just came across a thread on another writing forum, where most of the members are self-published authors. It might explain a lot about why so many 'indie' books are terrible. The person posting was saying that she'd just come across a book about grammar and what a lot of rubbish it was! I read on, expecting her to be shot down, but no, some people agreed with her, saying that they were writers not grammar experts and that was why they used editors! Aaaaagh! Surely the key to being a good writer is knowing all the rules so well that you don't even need to think about them?
So if you come across a book with mixed tenses and passive phrasing, it's not the fault of the writer - it's because their editor wasn't any good!
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Ha ha, ya just gotta love that! Seriously, that is truly awful.
I used to belong to a food forum, one which supposedly helped you lose weight, it did the reverse to me and I gained approx 7lbs because I was talking and thinking too much about food. Anyway - many of the forum posts were in full-on txt spk and often with little or no punctuation, together with a solid mass of words - paragraphs being in short supply don't ya know - it makes for jolly hard reading.
However, I digress. I'm planning a new novel, guys! Yeah, its really original, a new concept in online publishing.
This is how it works.
There are three hundred blank pages, wiv diffrent bakground kulurs & txtr. I post it up online. Anyone who wants to be a self-published aufuh adds content.
Yoo Kan post txt spk, inkurekt speling or wo'eva. Yoo kan av cleeshays, purple prose, anyfing u lik. Yoo can rite wot u lik, the only rool is tht yoo teik the last line of the post B4 and start with that.
Soas u kno wot to luk fur, its called
Six Duzen Shades Of Wite*
Holy crap! It's gonna be gr8!
So giddup thur folks & srt pstng!!!!!!
*(sorry can't do the maff).
Kool I kant wate 4 it :D I hop therz ferry handkuffs and stuff...all the bestest bookz hav those
LOL...
Yet another 'dork' has had an A-level English exam essay rejected in Silly Suffolk, because it was written entirely in 'txt-ese' - what is it with these thick-heads? Do they thunk they're bing clvr or summat??? ::)
[quote=B L Zebub]Yet another 'dork' has had an A-level English exam essay rejected in Silly Suffolk, because it was written entirely in 'txt-ese' [/quote]
tht mde me laff- I mean really??
No win - No fee ;)
We kan haz sewf-pubwishin' LOL!
Twilight, anyone?
What editor?!!! ;)
oi dz crvsa pf
Actually, I may be one of the few people on the planet who only uses a mobile phone once every 3 months, and then just to keep the contract alive. The only people who call are wrong numbers; and the garage texts, after we've had a service, asking if we would recommend them to other users. I realised the other day I can't remember how to answer the darn thing. Must RTM.
Jolly quiet life I lead...
Did you know the Gvt advice at the beginning was no child under 16 should use one? They had leaflets in John Lewis but they weren't there for long.
The whatever they ares from a mobile phone go right through a child's skull and brain, instead of being contained in the area round the ear as in an adult's. They can go right through even if you are carrying a child and using a mobile phone. It changes the electrical impulses in their brains and no-one knows what this will do to them. The sort of phone you cary round your home is little better.
Mobile humour causes tumour.
From using the LookInside feature on Amazon it seems that many self-published authors don't even bother using editors, or at least not good ones.